started its celestial life as a satellite that somehow escaped it's master and went into orbit around the Sun on its own this as we shall soon see is indeed what happened according to the Sumerian texts and now we reach the climax of our search for answers to primeval celestial events the existence of the 12th planet astonishing as it may sound our astronomers have been looking for evidence that indeed such a planet once existed between Mars and Jupiter toward the end of the 18th century even before Neptune had been discovered