what is up with the "10th planet" called sedna!!?

[pluto_is_not_a_dog]

please tell me all you know about this topic.

 

[lunatio_gordin]

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/<br />That should help... though i imagine this could have been contained to the other thread.

 

[majornature]

Sedna sounds like a good name and it doesn't sound greek either, I hope not. So what is the next step? Will they send a spacecraft to the planet. After all, pictures are needed...<br /><br /><b> Zochi Coisma Di Thom Pozix Xi!!!!</b> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="2" color="#14ea50"><strong><font size="1">We are born.  We live.  We experiment.  We rot.  We die.  and the whole process starts all over again!  Imagine That!</font><br /><br /><br /><img id="6e5c6b4c-0657-47dd-9476-1fbb47938264" style="width:176px;height:247px" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/14/4/6e5c6b4c-0657-47dd-9476-1fbb47938264.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" width="276" height="440" /><br /></strong></font> </div>

 

[joshbe]

Actually, Sedna is the "11th" planet<br />#10 is 2003 UB 313. It is twice as far from the sun as pluto, and roughly two times as big.

 

[jmilsom]

Sedna is named after the Inuit goddess of the sea. <br /><br />Sedna is currently three times the distance from the sun as Pluto. The New Horizons probe that will depart for Pluto next year will take 9.5 years to get there if the primary launch window is used.<br /><br />Send a probe to Sedna - sure, if you're prepared to wait for <i>thirty years!</i> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[drazaxa]

lol, in 30years we'll have found a way to get there 20times faster i'm sure <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> we've only been in space for what? 50years?

 

[jmilsom]

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