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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994776
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Distant object could be 'tenth planet'
15:55 15 March 04 NewScientist.com news service
Pluto's title as the outermost planet could be in jeopardy, with the discovery of a large object orbiting the Sun far further out than any other.
The object, dubbed Sedna for the Inuit goddess of the sea, lies about 10 billion miles from the Sun, nearly twice as far as Pluto. Its estimated 2000-kilometre diameter is about 90 per cent the size of Pluto's, making Sedna the largest Solar System object discovered since Pluto itself in 1930.
"Sedna is very big, and much farther out than previous discoveries," discoverer Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology told The Australian. "I'm pretty sure there are other large bodies there too." Brown's team is expected to reveal further details of the discovery later on Monday.
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