Sorry, amateur view here.

Predicting an orbit for an unknown object is an admirable exercise but seems hardly destined to be accurate.  Many things must be known about the object, if I remember correctly. Do we know those things?

A point in 3-dimensional space, barring any barricades, can always be joined to any other point in that space by a straight line. From the looks of it everyone is talking in ideals and software that must be but an approximation itself.

Trying to determine what this distant object is can also be an exercise in guesswork. Never mind that there is a world of difference between a comet the size of a shopping mall and one “1/4 the size of the moon.”

My guess? Self-hype by the space junkies, about a hardly significant discovery made by someone who uses Stitchin to then refute Stitchin, calling attention to his own discovery. Actually sure does look like the path of his Nibiru…To me it seems we have progressed in our knowledge of the cosmos, but perhaps not so much to compensate for what we have already lost.  Specialization and special vocabularies based themselves on man-made mathematics and similar criteria have made the fascinating science of astronomy – something past peoples did with the unaided eye, and who calculated positions with sticks in the sand – into a morass of political disagreements and fund-raising trickeries. Don’t believe me? For every date you get for the age of the earth, the sun, the galaxy…or for the extent of the universe, or the distance of certain star X (no red shift allowed, we can discuss parallax…), I can find you another expert who gives another number. Really, billion gets tossed around…no pun intended.

Seems also, we spend a lot of scarce cash on financing the UFOnauts and NASA endeavors, for not a whole lot of benefit therefrom. Truth is, we don’t know much, and, well, if both Einstein and/or quantum mechanics turn out to be no better than Newton (and they very well may be…”negative space,” “negative matter” – my you-know-what…), well our whole outlook about our very own universe would look downright silly. Too many “facts” are produced to confirm theory, if you get my drift. Truth is being manufactured, rather than discovered.

Velikovsky still has put forth the most coherent views on these matters, and he made several accurate predictions, by which he made some claims about past catastrophes, such as some doomsday situations people are speaking about now. It was for him a comet that was the primary cause for “the ice age,” for instance. But I’m sure you guys know all that and about him. The point I remember (haha) is the moon was the efficient cause. I imagine that while we wobble as the years go by – along with solar inconsistencies, burst holes in the protective layers of the atmosphere due to rockets, spaceships, and so on, I think, causing weather changes more than people of this science want to admit – the planet is really in a constant state of change

One more thing. An earthquake of 6.0? Again, you need differentiate between what is an “earthquake” and what is usual subterranean movement.