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297 74 to 76; when it last appeared in 1986, it was 76 years. Ex- tend Halley’s digression to Nibiru’s 3600, and you get a plus/ minus variant of about 50 years each way. There is one other reason for wondering why Nibiru had digressed so much from its wonted SAR: the unusual occur- rence of the Deluge circa 10900 B.c.E. During its 120 SARs before the Deluge, Nibiru orbited without causing such a catastrophe. Then something unusual happened that brought Nibiru closer to Earth: combined with the slippage conditions of the ice sheet covering Antarctica, the Deluge occurred. What was that “‘something unusual”? The answer may well lie farther out in our solar system, where Uranus and Neptune orbit—planets whose many moons include some that, inexplicably, orbit in an “opposite” (“retrograde”) direction—the way Nibiru orbits. One of the great mysteries in our solar system is the fact that the planet Uranus literally lies on its side—its north- south axis faces the Sun horizontally instead of being vertical to it. “Something” gave Uranus a “big whack” sometime in its past, NASA’s scientists said—without venturing to guess what the “something” was. I have often wondered whether that “something” was also what caused the huge mysterious “chevron” scar and an unexplained “ploughed” feature that NASA’s Voyager 2 found on Uranus’s moon Miranda in 1986 (Fig. 128)—a moon that is different in numerous ways from Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return FIGURE 128