{"id":39524,"date":"2017-02-01T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=39524"},"modified":"2017-02-01T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:00:21","slug":"mystery-sedna-solar-systems-icy-oddball-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/02\/mystery-sedna-solar-systems-icy-oddball-world.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mystery of Sedna: The Solar System&#8217;s Icy Oddball World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39525\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/02\/Sedna_Size_Comparisons.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39525\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39525\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/02\/Sedna_Size_Comparisons.jpg\" alt=\"Quaoar and friends, with Sedna\" width=\"596\" height=\"477\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 2004 NASA\/JPL artist\u2019s rendition shows the then-newly discovered planet-like object dubbed \u201cSedna\u201d in relation to other bodies in the solar system, including Earth and the Moon, Pluto, and Quaoar, which, at the time, was the largest known Trans-Neptunian object other than Pluto and Pluto\u2019s moon Charon. However, Quaoar is now known to be roughly the size of the dwarf planet Ceres. The diameter of Sedna is roughly three-quarters that of Pluto, but is significantly\u00a0larger than Quaoar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are, as yet, no good vacation opportunities on Sedna, and no ski resorts have been developed. \u00a0Still, it\u2019s an interesting place:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/the_mystery_of_sedna_the_solar_systems_icy_oddball_world.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/the_mystery_of_sedna_the_solar_systems_icy_oddball_world.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 There are, as yet, no good vacation opportunities on Sedna, and no ski resorts have been developed. \u00a0Still, it\u2019s an interesting place: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/the_mystery_of_sedna_the_solar_systems_icy_oddball_world.html \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Mystery of Sedna: The Solar System&#039;s Icy Oddball World&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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