Sedna
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Sedna
C21: after the Inuit goddess of the ocean
Example Sentences
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“I bawled my brains out,” said Sedna Moseley, the dog’s foster owner, who at the time worked as a veterinarian technician at Loma Linda Animal Hospital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2020
“Objects like Sedna and 2012 VP113 can’t form on these eccentric orbits,” says Sheppard.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2020
Some themes: walrus hunting, ball games and legends like Sedna, goddess of the sea.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
Sheppard and Trujillo’s work concerned what may be—after Planet Nine—the second-most mysterious object in the solar system: a 1,000-kilometer-wide TNO called Sedna, discovered in 2003 by Brown, Trujillo and another colleague.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2018
The hardest task of all is to drive away Sedna, and this is reserved for the most powerful enchanter.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
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