- The planet Nibiru... was also known as "The Red Planet" in antiquity... Worlds in Collision, by I. Velikovsky: "It was about this comet that Servius wrote: (( Non igneo sed sanguineo rubore fuisse )) (It was not of a flaming but of a bloody redness). One of the first visible signs of this encounter was the reddening of the earth's surface by a fine dust of rusty pigment. In sea, lake and river this pigment gave a bloody coloring to the water. Because of these particles of ferruginous or other soluble pigment, the world turned red". Full story:
