>>The Roadmap and other info is now available
http://msdn.com/vfoxpro.
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>I thought it was going to be an actual MAP! With roads and hills on it.. maybe a few foxes trotting along the road or something... but it's not that way at all... I'm confused. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MAP?????????????? Is Sedna a road or a city?
Sedna is the farthest known object in the Solar System - about 3 times as far as Pluto. It also displaced Qaoar as the second-largest planetoid. After Pluto, that is, which is now known to be much smaller than originally believed - and which some astronomers still consider a planet. Qaoar was also discovered quite recently, displacing Ceres as the largest (or second-largest) planetoid. Ceres, in turn, was the first planetoid discovered. It is interesting to note that it was discovered on the very first day of the 19th. century: Jan. 1, 1801.
Of course, you might also consider Sedna a tenth planet - especially if you insist on calling Pluto a planet. Sedna is estimated to be almost as big as Pluto. The limit, between what is a planet and what is a planetoid, is of course quite arbitrary, and might consider factors such as size (both volume and mass), the presence of an atmosphere, the shape (larger planets are round, due to their atmosphere), and perhaps a few more.
The planetoid Sedna was named after the Inuit goddess of the sea.
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