- Most Distant Object in Solar System Discovered
Spitzer Space Telescope new release providing some intial information about Sedna, a planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto.
www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2004-05/release.shtml
- Scientists Find Another Huge Mini-World in Outer Solar System
SPACE.com article about the spherical object currently three times farther away than Pluto from the Sun.
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/new_object_040315.html
- Nine Planets: Sedna
Presents some facts about the object officially known as 2003 VB12.
www.nineplanets.org/sedna.html
- Sedna (2003 VB12)
Profile of the red planetoid, the most distant solar system object ever discovered. From Michael E. Brown at the California Institute of Technology.
www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna
- Kuiper Belt Page: Sedna - 2003 VB12
Offers a brief technical profile of the body trapped between the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.
www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/kb/sedna.html
- Wikipedia: Sedna
Trans-Neptunian object 2003 VB12, discovered by Mike Brown (Caltech), Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory) and David Rabinowitz (Yale University) on November 14, 2003, and announced on March 15, 2004.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_(astronomical_object)
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