Ian O’Neill: Hehe, that’s good! I’ve been writing about the non-existence of an Earth-killing Planet X for the last 2 years, and I still get hate mail because I say the thing doesn’t exist!

Mike Brown: I sometimes get hate mail because people are convinced it does exists and I discovered it and therefore the destruction of the Earth is really all my fault. I only WISH I had that much power.

Ian O’Neill: Lol! That’s an interesting twist! So you’re not hiding the existence of Planet X then? Or should I say “Nibiru”.

It is very hard to convince someone who thinks that there is a conspiracy that you are not part of the conspiracy. I really, really wish there were a Planet X and that I had discovered it. That would have been serious fun.

Ian O’Neill: When you discovered Eris, did it cross your mind that it *might* have been the fabled Planet X?

this thing was big — bigger than Pluto, even — but it was also clear that it was not the Planet X of legend.Read more at dsc.discovery.com