Planet X Researcher Solrion Dies Robertino "Rob" Solrion, approximately 68, has died.

(This information first reached me ~ thanks to Tom Ritchford ~ on February 15th, and I communicated this news to others I know then. I am posting an update today due to the amazing coincidence of the media announcement of the search for another planet in our solar system coming on the same date as Rob's death news...from a Lafayette location.) As Fox News noted on February 16, 2011, "A duo of planetary astronomers grabbed media attention by claiming a planet four times the size of Jupiter may be lurking in the outer solar system. They call the planet Tyche . "The claim by John Matese and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Lousiana-Lafayette is not new: They have been making a case for Tyche since 1999, suggesting that the giant planet's presence in a far-flung region of solar system called the Oort cloud would explain the unusual orbital paths of some comets that originate there. "'There's evidence that some Oort cloud comets display orbital peculiarities,' Matese said. 'We're saying that perhaps the pattern is indicative that there's a planet there.'" Intriguingly, as this news was coming forth, it was learned that one of the foremost researchers on Planet X has died. Here's what is known about Rob, a frequent correspondent of many, and friend of the Forteana list, from his own website. (More info will be added later when details about his passing come forth.) Rob was born and educated in Texas. He was a 1964 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in Russian and minoring in French. He joined the Peace Corps that same year and was assigned to Massaua, Eritrea (then a part of the Empire of Ethiopia), where he taught English, science and mathematics at the local high school. Subsequently he attended the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C., and was assigned to the Refugee Program in South Vietnam during the war. Fluent in both French and Vietnamese, Rob also served as a translator for the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. He has studied a number of other foreign languages, has graduate credits in linguistics from UCLA and has widely travelled across 50 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Rob became interested in "catastrophism and ancient history" in 1972 and avidly pursued the ideas of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky. He became a part of the so-called "Velikovskian School" as propounded by the former KRONOS Journal. Following the death of Dr. Velikovsky in November 1979, this "school" fractured into smaller, often rival groups. After a hiatus from 1980 through 1993, during which time he worked as a professional photographer and writer, Rob became fascinated by the books of Zecharia Sitchin concerning Planet X Nibiru. His original website was uploaded in 1996, after he had made the assumption, now shared by many, that the "cosmic cataclysm" described by Dr. Velikovsky was caused by the "comet-planet" of Mr. Sitchin. Subsequently Rob developed his theory of "The Cosmic Tree" by

integrating both these men's ideas with those of Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend in Hamlet's Mill. Rob's theory of "The Cosmic Tree" is unique and has not been explored by other researchers on the Internet. In June 2003, Rob was interviewed for the video Planet X Nibiru Assessing The Science. Rob Solrion was also one of the world's leading authorities on the life and times of Apollonius of Tyana. Source for bio info. Rob wrote Apollonius of Tyana and The Shroud of Turin in 2005. He earlier wrote Osiris, Isis & Planet X: Chasing the Centuries and Planet X Nibiru: Slow-Motion Doomsday. Posted by Loren Coleman at 10:56 AM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Apollonius of Tyana, Daniel Whitmire, John Matese, Lafayette, Nibiru, Oort, Planet X, Rob Solarion, The Shroud of Turin, Tyche 1 comments: Mark said... > "due to the amazing coincidence of the media announcement of the search for another planet in our solar system coming on the same date as Rob's death news" Jacques Vallee (with Tracy Torm) wrote a sad but interesting book, "Fastwalker." One part of the premise is that there is genuine weirdness going on, real high strangeness. But at the same time somebody, for some reason, is creating counterfeit weirdness, counterfeit high strangeness, that is hard to tell apart from the real thing. Solrion must be smiling in the afterlife, seeing the Planet X news and news of his passing creating a kind of harmony. Somehow. 12:30 PM