The Dark Star: The Planet X Evidence Read Online Free

emit its own heat as well to warm its inner moons. Yet, it
couldn’t be too big or its electro-magnetic radiation would be readily
detectable from Earth.
    It would have to be warm, but fairly dark. Yet, it may still glow
enough to light its own moons, rather like the glow of the embers of an old
fire can dimly light a room in winter. Because, as we know, luminosity drops
off with distance. Beyond its system of moons, the Dark Star would become all
but invisible in the night sky.
    This concept is a central plank of my Dark Star Theory. It raises
the possibility of extending the habitable zone into the comet clouds, and adds
a sense of urgency to the otherwise rather academic pursuit of discovering
planets beyond Pluto. The hunt for Planet X becomes the hunt for life.

Detecting Planet X
    Although
such a planet has so far evaded direct detection in our solar system, similar
entities have been found orbiting neighboring stars. How can this be, given how
much further away those stars are? Surely, if we can find these bodies around
distant stars, we should be able to see one very clearly around the sun?
Strangely, perhaps, it is the other way around; the planets located around
other stars are easier to spot. This is because they are detected in a
different way.
    The
means of detecting dark planetary bodies around other stars involve indirect
techniques. These include the measurement of the star’s ‘wobble’ in space, as
its position is influenced by the massive body interacting with it. This wobble
may be very slight, but it is enough for the modern astronomical techniques to
detect. Calculations based on these observations can then give information
about the size and orbit of the planetary body orbiting the star in question.
Sometimes the light of the star will be seen to dim slightly, and this is
attributed to the planet moving between the star and us, effectively blocking
out a minuscule amount of the star’s light.
    These
can be conclusive observations, enabling astronomers to confidently claim the
existence of giant worlds around neighboring stars in the Milky Way. But the
same techniques cannot apply to our own sun. If the sun is wobbling in space
because of its companion, then the effect is negligible because of the Dark
Star’s immense distance from it.
    This
contrasts with discoveries of extrasolar planets whose orbits are all similar
to the inner planets of our solar system. We know that the sun is moving in a
slightly odd direction compared with its neighbours. It is heading towards the
Solar Apex, near the star Vega in the sky, and this may turn out to be
coincident with the position of the Dark Star. But, this does not provide
evidence in itself for the existence of this possible ‘binary companion’. So,
to find such a body around our own sun we must rely upon different techniques,
even though it is much closer to us than the stars studied by planet-hunters.
    Often, the orbits of the extrasolar planets, or ‘exoplanets’ are
eccentric. Yet, they can remain an intrinsic part of stable planetary systems. 20 This was a surprising discovery, but is in keeping with long-standing
speculations about the nature of our own Planet X. These speculations stem from
some rather remarkable theories generated in the second half of the 20th
Century.
    Certain researchers, including Immanuel Velikovsky and Zecharia
Sitchin, proposed that we could learn a lot about ancient astronomy from
ancient myth. Their theses worked on the principle that before writing was
developed, scientific knowledge was already being handed down from generation
to generation -- but that it took the form of myth. If one then worked
backwards from the myth, and understood the ‘gods’ to be equivalent to cosmic
bodies, like the sun, Moon and planets, then the myth would indicate ancient
models for creation of the solar system.
    Careful scrutiny of certain ancient myths shows a fairly precise
understanding of the solar system among ancient peoples,