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Approaching Sedna
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10/11/2005 18:24:12
 
 
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10/11/2005 18:01:27
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
VFPX/Sedna
Miscellaneous
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01067057
Message ID:
01067493
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>>>>http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/wallpaper_display.php?pic=cosmic_sedna_1280.jpg
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>>>Nice picture.
>>>
>>>For your information, it seems, so far, that the real Sedna doesn't have a moon.
>>>
>>>However, it is not uncommon for planetoids to have a moon; Pluto was recently announced to have three moons; even much smaller planetoids sometimes have moons.
>>
>>I saw that article too. But did we send a probe by Pluto? Why didn't it spot the other moons?
>
>I think Voyager 2 went to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - they happened to be in a more or less convenient allignment - but not to Pluto, which is very far off the Ecliptic.
>
>The recent moons must have been discovered either from ground-based telescopes, or telescopes orbiting Earth.

Heres the article. Look near the bottom of the article for the actual photos taken from the Hubble.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9878701/
Greg Reichert
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