Sedna
See also: sedna
English
Proper noun
Sedna
- (mythology, Inuit mythology) The Inuit goddess of the sea and marine animals.
- 2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 87:
- Sedna began to enjoy keeping all the sea creatures away from the humans by tucking them into her now miles-long hair.
- (astronomy) 90377 Sedna, a trans-Neptunian dwarf planet whose eccentric detached orbit is wholly beyond the Kuiper belt.
- 2007, C. Murray, David Brodie, Ice, Rock, and Beauty: A Visual Tour of the New Solar System, page 32:
- Scattered beyond the Kuiper Belt is a disk of objects such as Eris and Sedna.
- 2009, Alan Boyle, The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference, page 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.
Synonyms
- (astronomy, astrology): ⯲
Derived terms
Translations
a goddess
See also
Further reading
- Sedna (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 90377 Sedna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛd.na/
- Rhymes: -ɛdna
- Syllabification: Sed‧na
- Homophone: sedna
Proper noun
Sedna f
Declension
Further reading
- Sedna in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
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References
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