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Sedna

British  
/ ˈsɛdnə /

noun

  1. a large planet-like object discovered in 2003, orbiting the sun but considerably beyond Pluto

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Sedna

C21: after the Inuit goddess of the ocean


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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

Thus Sedna and the other evil spirits are at last driven away, and next day a great festival is celebrated by old and young in honour of the event.

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

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