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Voltae on
It’s a shame there aren’t any plans for a probe to visit Sedna. With such a highly elliptical orbit, this is essentially our only chance.
Additional_Data_Need on
Imagine how many more plutoids must be out there, but haven’t been found because they’re much further out on their highly elliptical orbits.
happyfntsy on
What is Sedna? Is it close to us now? How long does the close to us part take?
Beermedear on
There is some catchy YouTube series of songs based on space, and a few focused on dwarf planets. My 5 year old memorized the one about Sedna and sang it for months.
Useless for most but if you got kids, the Nirks is a pretty fun way to introduce kids to some space stuff I’d have never learned as a kid.
GioVasari121 on
How do we know it’s not orbiting something else?
Hispanoamericano2000 on
Too bad that neither NASA nor any other space agency has yet announced a mission to Sedna, considering how fast the next two launch windows (2029 and 2034) are approaching us and how extended Sedna’s orbit is.
Are all these agencies really going to pass up the golden opportunity of this generation to be able to closely explore what could be an Ort Cloud Object or (in a less likely case) even an interstellar intruder in our own Solar System?
JayW8888 on
Is this orbit based on the suns gravitational pull? At its furthest orbit, the gravity must be very small.
Convillious on
Holy shit I haven’t thought about Sedna in so many years.
LunaFan1k on
Pretty sure this is just Rita Repulsive’s prison, we’re going to need to find some teenagers with attitude.
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Ironically, my phone didn’t want to load any part of this post, and then I figured that is fair for 11k years of loading to do.
It’s a shame there aren’t any plans for a probe to visit Sedna. With such a highly elliptical orbit, this is essentially our only chance.
Imagine how many more plutoids must be out there, but haven’t been found because they’re much further out on their highly elliptical orbits.
What is Sedna? Is it close to us now? How long does the close to us part take?
There is some catchy YouTube series of songs based on space, and a few focused on dwarf planets. My 5 year old memorized the one about Sedna and sang it for months.
Useless for most but if you got kids, the Nirks is a pretty fun way to introduce kids to some space stuff I’d have never learned as a kid.
How do we know it’s not orbiting something else?
Too bad that neither NASA nor any other space agency has yet announced a mission to Sedna, considering how fast the next two launch windows (2029 and 2034) are approaching us and how extended Sedna’s orbit is.
Are all these agencies really going to pass up the golden opportunity of this generation to be able to closely explore what could be an Ort Cloud Object or (in a less likely case) even an interstellar intruder in our own Solar System?
Is this orbit based on the suns gravitational pull? At its furthest orbit, the gravity must be very small.
Holy shit I haven’t thought about Sedna in so many years.
Pretty sure this is just Rita Repulsive’s prison, we’re going to need to find some teenagers with attitude.