Mapping - where is Nibiru?

[Mojomoe]

The red planet, from Into Darkness. Where is it in space? There is basically zero information given in canon, so I am willing to entertain basically any educated guesses.

For example, since it was relatively unexplored, can we assume it’s just outside of charted federation space in the Kelvin 2250s? In which direction did it lay? It’s a lush world, so I would guess it probably doesn’t sit near Klingon space or it would have been plundered.

 

[F. King Daniel]

In our solar system, on it's way to smash us

Seriously, since they got to Kronos and back in 24 hours, I'd say anywhere within that distance from Earth.

 

[fireproof78]

I believe it's near Dublin.

 

[Timo]

Our basic cues are:

- Kirk isn't on a five-year mission of exploration yet, so apparently running a short-duration errand of some other sort while hitting Nibiru.
- Kirk seems to return to Earth from Nibiru pretty much without detours, as otherwise Spock's candid report would make Pike contact Kirk immediately while he's still in outer space; here he apparently summons Kirk immediately after the Enterprise's return, possibly the very next morning.
- That Kirk seems to think he can get away with calling the Nibiru visit "uneventful" means he had no real mission there; if he were tasked with careful observations of a soon-to-be-dead civilization, he'd have needed to fake the results. So it seems he was just passing by. (Perhaps even choosing to pass by on a pretense, but with the full intent of blocking the volcano that he had data on.)

The closer, the better, then, for a plausible casual visit on the starship's way home. And with the additional speculation that the Federation had preceding data about the volcano to prompt Kirk to go and act, we can further argue it doesn't take much effort to get there; people coming and going might deliver roughly annual reports.

Near Dublin sounds fine to me, then.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[publiusr]

In our solar system, on it's way to smash us

Seriously, since they got to Kronos and back in 24 hours, I'd say anywhere within that distance from Earth.

Now if it were left up to me, I’d say that Gliese 710 was the “Nemesis” death star closer than once thought, and Nibiru it’s sole planet.

 

[DEWLine]

So, roughly 62 lightyears away...

http://hygmap.space/index.php?x_c=5...age_size=600&max_line=0&trek_names=1&m_limit=

 

[valkyrie013]

Considering at even tng speeds alpha centauri is 2 days away..
It guess a week.

 

[publiusr]

Now, remember, updated GAIA data had Betelgeuse (which dimmed recently) smaller and closer.

My in-universe idea was that Gliese was our Sun’s forgotten companion star that was also closer than thought…I’m trying to square it with all that Nancy Leider Planet X crap from Art Bell…

In real life, Gliese 710 IS to get close to our Solar System in a million years or so.

In THE STARFLIGHT HANDBOOK it was called DM 61 + 366 by Mallove and Matloff.

Every update gets the pass a little closer.
My choice for a re-booted WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.