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Dark Stars and Mythological Planets One of the most interesting and controversial discussions among the astronomical community today is the possible existence of a brown dwarf star just beyond our solar system that might have large planetary bodies in elliptical orbits around our sun and the brown dwarf star. If such a celestial body exists many anomalies in our local solar system could possibly be explained, also if such a body exists there could be planets with elliptical orbits in our solar system that could take thousands of years to complete. This could possibly explain the major planetary changes that have occurred at long intervals throughout the geological history of our planet. This new discovery by the astronomical community has spawned numerous groups of people that are linking this brown dwarf sun hypothesis to ancient human texts in an effort to explain current global weather changes and possibly an impending catastrophe following a planetary body that will pass close to the earth in the next few years . I believe it is very plausible that we my share our solar system with many celestial objects that still remain undetected but personally do not agree with these radical groups and their attempts to link ancient texts to modern scientific discoveries. Recently NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has discovered a 10th object beyond Pluto with a highly elliptical orbit, ?The most intriguing idea is that there might be another world as big as Earth, a gravitational bully lurking in some unexplored corner of the solar system. Here's the problem: Scientists can't figure out how Sedna, which is about three-fourths as big as Pluto, came to have such a strange orbit around the Sun. Sedna's path is highly elliptic. It ranges from 76 astronomical units (AU) when it is closest to the Sun to 1,000 AU when it is farthest. One AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun. "How on Earth could anything get into an orbit like that," wonders astronomer Brian Marsden. He suggests another sort of Earth might have had something to do with putting Sedna on its current, odd course.? (?Sedna, space.com?) ?The new planet, which is yet to be formally named, is at least as big as Pluto and about three times farther away from the Sun than P luto. It is very cold and dark. The planet was discovered by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif.