Posted Feb 24, 2009 by Galaxy Babe - FP author
Entry: Sedna (Update for A4149470 Sedna - The Tenth Planet?) - A47833734
Author: Galaxy Babe aka Ms GB A47534448 - U128652
Update for A4149470
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Posted Feb 24, 2009 by toybox - entrusting myself to chance
I'll read it in more detail later, but, really, this was shocking:
>>However, unlike many of the other planets, Sedna has an extreme elliptical orbit, far greater than that of Pluto.<<
Pluto? Are you not speaking of planets?
http://xkcd.com/473/
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Posted Feb 24, 2009 by Galaxy Babe - FP author
It was until the official name was agreed upon, I'll add that for amusement factor
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Posted Feb 25, 2009 by RadoxTheGreen - (On Opera 10 TURBO!) not caring what BBC message board this is as long as h2g2 remains AWESOME!!
Ah, further investigation reveals that 90377 Sedna was discovered in 2003 and, at the time, was hailed as the 10th planet.
136199 Eris was discovered in 2005, when it was also hailed as the 10th planet. It was called 'Xena' by its discoverer and its moon 'Gabrielle' but when they got the official names Xena became Eris and Gabrielle became Dysnomia (daughter of Eris and demon of Lawlessness, said to be an obscure reference to Lucy Lawless). 
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Posted Feb 25, 2009 by Galaxy Babe - FP author
Sorry Radox, I meant Xena got renamed Eris 
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Posted Mar 3, 2009 by Galaxy Babe - FP author
So, is this ready to be applied?
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Posted Mar 4, 2009 by pailaway - (an utterly gratuitous link in the evolutionary chain)
Good 'un
Hmmm... It needs only this almost ridiculously gratuitous link - A44196997 for 'a group of similarly-sized objects'
(I hardly understand it myself)
>>the local geography of planetoid space<<
That is a great phrase and I shall use it in conversation at the first opportunity:
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Posted Mar 4, 2009 by Galaxy Babe - FP author
I've applied the update F47997?thread=6375365 to the original so I've added the link there too: A4149470
 ET
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Posted Mar 5, 2009 by BBC auto-messages
Editorial Note: This conversation has been moved from 'Sedna (Update for A4149470 Sedna - The Tenth Planet?)' to 'Sedna'.
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Posted Mar 5, 2009 by Gnomon
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Posted Mar 5, 2009 by Galaxy Babe - FP author
Thank you
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