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Sedna
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sedna
Translingual
mul
Etymology
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Proper noun
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genus family Mummuciidae certain spiders
References
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English
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right|thumb|Sedna's planetary symbol ⯲
right|thumb|Orbit of Sedna (red) compared to those of outer Solar System objects (Pluto's in purple)
thumb|Artist's impression of Sedna.
Etymology
Borrowed from en iu ᓴᓐᓇ Inuit goddess, Mother of the Sea.
The dwarf planet and the planitia are named after the goddess.
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Sedna.wav US
Proper noun
en Q875507en mythology Inuit mythology The Inuit goddess of the sea and marine animals.
en 2018 Tanya Tagaq Split Tooth And Other Stories (2023) 87 Sedna began to enjoy keeping all the sea creatures away from the humans by tucking them into her now miles-long hair.
en Q15610en astronomy a dwarf planet whose eccentric detached orbit is wholly beyond the Kuiper belt.
en 90377 Sedna 90377 2003 VB12 2003 VB12 Sedna 90377 2003 VB12 90337 (2003 VB12) Sedna
en 2007 C. Murray; David Brodie Ice, Rock, and Beauty: A Visual Tour of the New Solar System https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZzCOzb21sMsC&pg=PA32&dq=%22Sedna%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Sedna%22&f=false 32 Scattered beyond the Kuiper Belt is a disk of objects such as Eris and Sedna.
en 2009 Alan Boyle The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference https://books.google.com.au/books?id=s4WCjkloJCAC&pg=PA106&dq=%22Sedna%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Sedna%22&f=false 106 Brown clicked on a button to have the computer calculate just how far away the object was, and came up with a distance farther than Pluto, even farther than Sedna: about 97 AU. Then he ran some quick calculations to estimate how big the object was, assuming that it was as reflective as Sedna.
2010, Rodney S. Gomes, Jean S. Soares, Sedna, 2004 VN112 and 2000 CR105: the tip of an iceberg, Julio A. Fernández, Daniela Lazzaro, Dina Prialnik, Rita Schulz (editors), Icy Bodies of the Solar System: Proceedings of the 263rd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union (IAU S263), page 67,
We review two main scenarios that may have implanted Sedna, 2004 VN112 and 2000 CR105 on their current peculiar orbits.
en astronomy en Sedna Planitia: en a <<plain>> on the <<planet:pref/Venus>>
Synonyms
astronomy astrology ⯲
Derived terms
en sednoid SednianSlyuta, E. N.; Kreslavsky, M. A. (1990). Intermediate (20–100 KM) Sized Volcanic Edifices on Venus. Lunar and planetary science XXI. Lunar and Planetary Institute. p. 1174.
Translations
Q875507 a goddess
Dutch: nl Sedna
Esperanto: eo Sedno
French: fr Sedna f
Latin: la Sedna n
Polish: pl Sedna f
Portuguese: pt Sedna
Russian: ru Се́дна f
Q15610 planetoid
Abkhaz: ab Седна
Amharic: am ሴድና
Arabic: ar سدنا f sadnā
Armenian: hy Սեդնա
Azerbaijani: az Sedna
Chechen: ce Седна
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 賽德娜
Czech: cs Sedna f
Dutch: nl Sedna
Esperanto: eo Sedno
Estonian: et Sedna
Finnish: fi Sedna
French: fr Sedna
Georgian: ka სედნა
German: de Sedna f
Greek: el Σέντνα f
Hindi: hi सेडना
Indonesian: id Sedna
Italian: it Sedna f
Japanese: ja セドナ Sedona
Kazakh: kk Седна
Khmer: km សេដណា se d na
Korean: ko 세드나
Kyrgyz: ky Седна
Latvian: lv Sedna f
Lithuanian: lt Sedna f
Norwegian: no Sedna
Ossetian: os Седна
Persian: fa سدنا sednâ
Polish: pl Sedna f
Portuguese: pt Sedna
Quechua: qu Sitna
Russian: ru Се́дна f
Slovak: sk Sedna f
Swedish: sv Sedna
Tajik: tg Седна
Thai: th เซดนา sed nā
Turkish: tr Sedna
Turkmen: tk Sedna
Uzbek: uz Sedna
See also
References
Further reading
Sedna (mythology)
Sedna (dwarf planet)
Anagrams
en adens Sedan Desna snead Snead Sande Deans deans nades sedan Adens DNase Denas saden Danes Neads Andes
en eponyms
en Gods Planetoids
en Dwarf planets of the Solar System
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :bor en:Sedna + 1
Pronunciation
sedna
Proper noun
f
pl Inuit _ mythology en Sedna Inuit goddess of the sea and marine animals
en Sedna dwarf planet
Declension
<f.sg.given>
Further reading
pl Dwarf planets of the Solar System Gods
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :der iu:ᓴᓐᓇ + 1
Pronunciation
sédi^na
Proper noun
f
en Sedna Inuit sea goddess
Proper noun
en Sedna dwarf planet
pt Dwarf planets of the Solar System
Tatar
Etymology
From tt iu ᓴᓐᓇ.
Proper noun
proper noun l
Sedna (dwarf planet).
tt 2004-04-05 tt:Ali Gilmi tt:Närsä ul Sedna? Marsta kemnär yözgän? Tatarça Windows qayçan bulaçaq? lw:tt:Azatlıq radiosı https://www.azatliq.org/a/812776.html Yaña planetağa Sedna digän isem quşıldı, eskimos xalıqlarda Okean Allası iseme. https://web.archive.org/web/20250626113751/https://www.azatliq.org/a/812776.html 26 June 2025
tt Dwarf planets of the Solar System