90377 Sedna - wikipedia 90377 Sedna For the Inuit goddess, see Sedna ( mythology ). For other uses, see Sedna ( disambiguation ). Sedna Sedna as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope Discovery Discovered by Michael Brown Chad Trujillo David Rabinowitz Discovery date 14 November 2003 Designations MPC designation ( 90377 ) Sedna Pronunciation / ˈsɛdnə / Named after Sedna Alternative designations 2003 VB Minor planet category trans - Neptunian object detached object sednoid Orbital characteristics Epoch 13 January 2016 ( JD 2457400.5 ) Uncertainty parameter 2 Observation arc 9240 days ( 25.30 yr ) Aphelion ≈ 936 AU ( Q ) 7014140000000000000 ♠ 1.4 × 10 km 0.015 ly Perihelion 7013113831562979431 ♠ 76.0917 ± 0.0087 AU ( q ) 7013114230000000000 ♠ 1.1423 × 10 km Semi-major axis 7013758162008707600 ♠ 506.8 AU ( a ) 7013757300000000000 ♠ 7.573 × 10 km Eccentricity 6999854910000000000 ♠ 0.854 91 ± 0.000 29 Orbital period ≈ 7004114000000000000 ♠ 11 400 yr Average orbital speed 1.04 km / s Mean anomaly 7000625112360882046 ♠ 358.163 ° ± 0.0054 ° Mean motion 0 ° 0 0.31 / day ( n ) Inclination 11.92872 ° ( i ) Longitude of ascending node 144.546 ° ( Ω ) Argument of perihelion 7000543303542853316 ♠ 311.29 ° ± 0.014 ° ( ω ) Earth MOID 75.07 AU ( 11.230 Tm ) Jupiter MOID 70.9416 AU ( 10.61271 Tm ) Jupiter Tisserand parameter 10.185 Physical characteristics 7005995000000000000 ♠ 995 ± 80 km ( thermophysical model ) 7006106000000000000 ♠ 1060 ± 100 km ( standard thermal model ) Rotation period 10.273 h ( 0.4280 d ) Sidereal rotation period 10.3 h ± 30 % Geometric albedo 6999320000000000000 ♠ 0.32 ± 0.06 Temperature ≈ 12 K ( see note ) Spectral type ( red ) B − V = 1.24 ; V − R = 0.78 Apparent magnitude 21.1 20.5 ( perihelic ) Absolute magnitude ( H ) 7000183000000000000 ♠ 1.83 ± 0.05 1.6 90377 Sedna is a large minor planet in the outer reaches of the Solar System that was, as of 2015, at a distance of about 86 astronomical units ( AU ) from the Sun, about three times as far as Neptune. Spectroscopy has revealed that Sedna 's surface composition is similar to that of some other trans - Neptunian objects, being largely a mixture of water, methane, and nitrogen ices with tholins. Its surface is one of the reddest among Solar System objects. It is most likely a dwarf planet. For most of its orbit, it is even farther from the Sun than at present, with its aphelion estimated at 937 AU ( 31 times Neptune 's distance ), making it one of the most distant - known objects in the Solar System other than long - period comets. Sedna has an exceptionally long and elongated orbit, taking approximately 11,400 years to complete and a distant point of closest approach to the Sun at 76 AU. These facts have led to much speculation about its origin. The Minor Planet Center currently places Sedna in the scattered disc, a group of objects sent into highly elongated orbits by the gravitational influence of Neptune. However, this classification has been contested, because Sedna never comes close enough to Neptune to have been scattered by it, leading some astronomers to informally refer to it as the first known member of the inner Oort cloud. Others speculate that it might have been tugged into its current orbit by a passing star, perhaps one within the Sun 's birth cluster ( an open cluster ), or even that it was captured from another star system. Another hypothesis suggests that its orbit may be evidence for a large planet beyond the orbit of Neptune. Astronomer Michael E. Brown, co-discoverer of Sedna and the dwarf planets Eris, Haumea, and Makemake, thinks that it is the most scientifically important trans - Neptunian object found to date, because understanding its unusual orbit is likely to yield valuable information about the origin and early evolution of the Solar System. Contents 1 History 1.1 Discovery 1.2 Naming 2 Orbit and rotation 3 Physical characteristics 4 Origin 5 Population 6 Classification 7 Exploration 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 External links History Discovery Sedna ( provisionally designated 2003 VB ) was discovered by Michael Brown ( Caltech ), Chad Trujillo ( Gemini Observatory ), and David Rabinowitz ( Yale University ) on 14 November 2003. The discovery formed part of a survey begun in 2001 with the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California using Yale 's 160 - megapixel Palomar Quest camera. On that day, an object was observed to move by 4.6 arcseconds over 3.1 hours relative to stars, which indicated that its distance was about 100 AU. Follow - up observations in November -- December 2003 with the SMARTS telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile as well as with the Tenagra IV telescope at the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii revealed that the object was moving along a distant highly eccentric orbit. Later, the object was precovered on older images made by the Samuel Oschin telescope as well as on images from the Near - Earth Asteroid Tracking consortium. These previous positions expanded its known orbital arc and allowed a more precise calculation of its orbit. Naming `` Our newly discovered object is the coldest, most distant place known in the Solar System '', said Mike Brown on his website, `` so we feel it is appropriate to name it in honor of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, who is thought to live at the bottom of the frigid Arctic Ocean. '' Brown also suggested to the International Astronomical Union 's ( IAU ) Minor Planet Center that any future objects discovered in Sedna 's orbital region should also be named after entities in arctic mythologies. The team made the name `` Sedna '' public before the object had been officially numbered. Brian Marsden, the head of the Minor Planet Center, said that such an action was a violation of protocol, and that some members of the IAU might vote against it. However, no objection was raised to the name, and no competing names were suggested. The IAU 's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature formally accepted the name in September 2004, and also considered that, in similar cases of extraordinary interest, it might in the future allow names to be announced before they were officially numbered. Orbit and rotation The orbit of Sedna set against the orbits of outer Solar System objects ( top and side views, Pluto 's orbit is purple, Neptune 's is blue ). Sedna orbit in white with hypothetical planet nine Sedna has the longest orbital period of any known object in the Solar System of comparable size or larger, calculated at around 11,400 years. Its orbit is extremely eccentric, with an aphelion estimated at 937 AU and a perihelion at about 76 AU. This perihelion was the largest of that of any known Solar System object until the discovery of 2012 VP 113. At its aphelion, Sedna orbits the Sun at a mere 4 % of Earth 's orbital speed. When Sedna was discovered it was 89.6 AU from the Sun approaching perihelion, and was the most distant object in the Solar System observed. Eris was later detected by the same survey near aphelion at 97 AU. The orbits of some long - period comets extend farther than that of Sedna ; they are too dim to be discovered except when approaching perihelion in the inner Solar System. Even as Sedna nears its perihelion in mid 2076, the Sun would appear merely as an extremely bright star - like pinpoint in its sky, 100 times brighter than a full moon on Earth ( for comparison, the Sun appears from Earth to be roughly 400,000 times brighter than the full Moon ), and too far away to be visible as a disc to the naked eye. When first discovered, Sedna was thought to have an unusually long rotational period ( 20 to 50 days ). It was initially speculated that Sedna 's rotation was slowed by the gravitational pull of a large binary companion, similar to Pluto 's moon Charon. A search for such a satellite by the Hubble Space Telescope in March 2004 found nothing, and subsequent measurements from the MMT telescope suggest a much shorter rotation period of about 10 hours, more typical for a body of its size. Most - distant known objects in the Solar System as of 25 August 2017 Object name Distance from the Sun ( AU ) Apparent magnitude Absolute magnitude ( H ) Current Perihelion Aphelion V774104 103 Unknown Unknown 24 Eris 96.19 37.8 97.6 18.7 − 1.1 2014 UZ 224 91.22 38.0 179.8 23.2 3.5 2007 OR 87.81 33.0 100.8 21.7 1.8 Sedna 85.33 76.0 939 21.0 1.5 2013 FS 28 85.27 34.6 347.6 24.5 4.9 2014 FC 69 84.56 40.3 106.9 24.1 4.6 2006 QH 181 83.72 37.8 96.7 23.6 4.3 2012 VP 113 83.54 80.5 438 23.4 4.0 2013 FY 27 80.13 36.1 81.8 22.1 3.0 2010 GB 174 71.53 48.7 693 25.1 6.5 2014 FJ 72 70.87 38.7 152.2 24.2 5.6 2012 FH 84 68.68 45.8 80.6 25.7 7.3 2015 GR 50 68.33 35.6 78.6 25.1 6.7 2015 GP 50 67.99 35.9 89.1 24.8 6.5 2013 FQ 28 67.63 48.7 80.6 24.4 6.0 2013 UJ 15 64.93 36.3 69.2 25.2 7.0 2014 FL 72 64.10 38.2 170.4 25.0 6.8 2011 GM 89 63.83 37.2 68.8 25.6 7.1 2015 RR 245 63.58 33.7 129.2 22.1 3.9 2014 SU 349 62.55 30.8 109.8 25.0 7.0 2013 AT 183 62.39 36.0 88.1 22.0 4.7 2014 SV 349 61.97 34.2 89.0 23.0 5.0 2014 FE 72 61.58 36.3 4274.0 24.1 6.1 2015 RX 245 61.38 45.5 768.9 24.2 6.2 2000 CR 61.24 44.3 412 23.9 6.3 2008 ST 291 60.44 42.4 154.5 22.2 4.2 2014 FM 72 60.20 34.4 76.6 24.1 6.2 2014 FF 72 60.09 37.1 63.3 24.8 6.9 2003 QX 113 60.04 36.7 62.1 22.5 4.7 2015 KH 162 59.45 41.5 82.8 21.6 3.9 2013 UT 15 59.30 43.9 347.9 24.2 6.3 2014 FL 70 59.24 33.1 77.0 24.0 6.5 2013 SY 99 59.13 49.9 1301.4 24.5 6.8 2014 FH 72 59.06 37.3 77.3 25.1 7.2 This table includes all known objects currently located at least twice as far as Neptune. See List of trans - Neptunian objects for more. view talk Physical characteristics Sedna has a V - band absolute magnitude ( H ) of about 1.8, and it is estimated to have an albedo of about 0.32, thus giving it a diameter of approximately 1,000 km. At the time of its discovery it was the intrinsically brightest object found in the Solar System since Pluto in 1930. In 2004, the discoverers placed an upper limit of 1,800 km on its diameter, but by 2007 this was revised downward to less than 1,600 km after observation by the Spitzer Space Telescope. In 2012, measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory suggested that Sedna 's diameter was 995 ± 80 km, which would make it smaller than Pluto 's moon Charon. Because Sedna has no known moons, determining its mass is currently impossible without sending a space probe. Sedna is currently the largest trans - Neptunian Sun - orbiting object not known to possess a satellite. Observations from the SMARTS telescope show that in visible light Sedna is one of the reddest objects in the Solar System, nearly as red as Mars. Chad Trujillo and his colleagues suggest that Sedna 's dark red colour is caused by a surface coating of hydrocarbon sludge, or tholin, formed from simpler organic compounds after long exposure to ultraviolet radiation. Its surface is homogeneous in colour and spectrum ; this may be because Sedna, unlike objects nearer the Sun, is rarely impacted by other bodies, which would expose bright patches of fresh icy material like that on 8405 Asbolus. Sedna and two other very distant objects -- 2006 SQ 372 and ( 87269 ) 2000 OO 67 -- share their color with outer classical Kuiper belt objects and the centaur 5145 Pholus, suggesting a similar region of origin. Trujillo and colleagues have placed upper limits in Sedna 's surface composition of 60 % for methane ice and 70 % for water ice. The presence of methane further supports the existence of tholins on Sedna 's surface, because they are produced by irradiation of methane. Barucci and colleagues compared Sedna 's spectrum with that of Triton and detected weak absorption bands belonging to methane and nitrogen ices. From these observations, they suggested the following model of the surface : 24 % Triton - type tholins, 7 % amorphous carbon, 10 % nitrogen, 26 % methanol, and 33 % methane. The detection of methane and water ices was confirmed in 2006 by the Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared photometry. The presence of nitrogen on the surface suggests the possibility that, at least for a short time, Sedna may have a tenuous atmosphere. During a 200 - year period near perihelion, the maximum temperature on Sedna should exceed 35.6 K ( − 237.6 ° C ), the transition temperature between alpha - phase solid N and the beta phase seen on Triton. At 38 K, the N vapor pressure would be 14 microbar ( 1.4 Pa or 0.000014 atm ). However, its deep red spectral slope is indicative of high concentrations of organic material on its surface, and its weak methane absorption bands indicate that methane on Sedna 's surface is ancient, rather than freshly deposited. This means that Sedna is too cold for methane to evaporate from its surface and then fall back as snow, which happens on Triton and probably on Pluto. Models of internal heating via radioactive decay suggest that Sedna might be capable of supporting a subsurface ocean of liquid water. Origin In their paper announcing the discovery of Sedna, Mike Brown and his colleagues described it as the first observed body belonging to the Oort cloud, the hypothetical cloud of comets thought to exist nearly a light - year from the Sun. They observed that, unlike scattered disc objects such as Eris, Sedna 's perihelion ( 76 AU ) is too distant for it to have been scattered by the gravitational influence of Neptune. Because it is a great deal closer to the Sun than was expected for an Oort cloud object, and has an inclination roughly in line with the planets and the Kuiper belt, they described the planetoid as being an `` inner Oort cloud object '', situated in the disc reaching from the Kuiper belt to the spherical part of the cloud. If Sedna formed in its current location, the Sun 's original protoplanetary disc must have extended as far as 75 AU into space. Also, Sedna 's initial orbit must have been approximately circular, otherwise its formation by the accretion of smaller bodies into a whole would not have been possible, because the large relative velocities between planetesimals would have been too disruptive. Therefore, it must have been tugged into its current eccentric orbit by a gravitational interaction with another body. In their initial paper, Brown, Rabinowitz and colleagues suggested three possible candidates for the perturbing body : an unseen planet beyond the Kuiper belt, a single passing star, or one of the young stars embedded with the Sun in the stellar cluster in which it formed. Mike Brown and his team favored the hypothesis that Sedna was lifted into its current orbit by a star from the Sun 's birth cluster, arguing that Sedna 's aphelion of about 1,000 AU, which is relatively close compared to those of long - period comets, is not distant enough to be affected by passing stars at their current distances from the Sun. They propose that Sedna 's orbit is best explained by the Sun having formed in an open cluster of several stars that gradually disassociated over time. That hypothesis has also been advanced by both Alessandro Morbidelli and Scott Jay Kenyon. Computer simulations by Julio A. Fernandez and Adrian Brunini suggest that multiple close passes by young stars in such a cluster would pull many objects into Sedna - like orbits. A study by Morbidelli and Levison suggested that the most likely explanation for Sedna 's orbit was that it had been perturbed by a close ( approximately 800 AU ) pass by another star in the first 100 million years or so of the Solar System 's existence. Artistic comparison of Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Sedna, 2007 OR, Quaoar, Orcus, and Earth along with the Moon. The trans - Neptunian planet hypothesis has been advanced in several forms by a number of astronomers, including Rodney Gomes and Patryk Lykawka. One scenario involves perturbations of Sedna 's orbit by a hypothetical planetary - sized body in the Hills cloud. Recent simulations show that Sedna 's orbital traits could be explained by perturbations by a Neptune - mass object at 2,000 AU ( or less ), a Jupiter - mass ( M ) at 5,000 AU, or even an Earth - mass object at 1,000 AU. Computer simulations by Patryk Lykawka have suggested that Sedna 's orbit may have been caused by a body roughly the size of Earth, ejected outward by Neptune early in the Solar System 's formation and currently in an elongated orbit between 80 and 170 AU from the Sun. Mike Brown 's various sky surveys have not detected any Earth - sized objects out to a distance of about 100 AU. However, it is possible that such an object may have been scattered out of the Solar System after the formation of the inner Oort cloud. Caltech researchers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown have hypothesised the existence of a giant planet in the outer Solar System, nicknamed Planet Nine. The planet would be about 10 times as massive as Earth. It would have a highly eccentric orbit, and its average distance from the Sun would be about 20 times that of Neptune ( which orbits at an average distance of 30.1 astronomical units ( 4.50 × 10 km ) ). Its orbital period would be 10,000 to 20,000 years. The planet 's existence was hypothesised using mathematical modeling and computer simulations, but it has not been observed directly. It may explain the orbits of a group of objects that includes Sedna. It has been suggested that Sedna 's orbit is the result of influence by a large binary companion to the Sun, thousands of AU distant. One such hypothetical companion is Nemesis, a dim companion to the Sun that has been proposed to be responsible for the supposed periodicity of mass extinctions on Earth from cometary impacts, the lunar impact record, and the common orbital elements of a number of long - period comets. However, to date no direct evidence of Nemesis has been found, and many lines of evidence ( such as crater counts ), have thrown its existence into doubt. John J. Matese and Daniel P. Whitmire, longtime proponents of the possibility of a wide binary companion to the Sun, have suggested that an object of 5 M lying at roughly 7,850 AU from the Sun could produce a body in Sedna 's orbit. Morbidelli and Kenyon have also suggested that Sedna did not originate in the Solar System, but was captured by the Sun from a passing extrasolar planetary system, specifically that of a brown dwarf about 1 / 20th the mass of the Sun ( M ). Population Main article : Sednoid Artist 's conception of the surface of Sedna, with the Milky Way, Antares, the Sun and Spica above Sedna 's highly elliptical orbit means that the probability of its detection was roughly 1 in 80, which suggests that, unless its discovery was a fluke, another 40 -- 120 Sedna - sized objects would exist within the same region. Another object, 2000 CR 105, has a similar but less extreme orbit : it has a perihelion of 44.3 AU, an aphelion of 394 AU, and an orbital period of 3,240 years. It may have been affected by the same processes as Sedna. Each of the proposed mechanisms for Sedna 's extreme orbit would leave a distinct mark on the structure and dynamics of any wider population. If a trans - Neptunian planet was responsible, all such objects would share roughly the same perihelion ( about 80 AU ). If Sedna were captured from another planetary system that rotated in the same direction as the Solar System, then all of its population would have orbits on relatively low inclinations and have semi-major axes ranging from 100 -- 500 AU. If it rotated in the opposite direction, then two populations would form, one with low and one with high inclinations. The perturbations from passing stars would produce a wide variety of perihelia and inclinations, each dependent on the number and angle of such encounters. Acquiring a larger sample of such objects would help in determining which scenario is most likely. `` I call Sedna a fossil record of the earliest Solar System '', said Brown in 2006. `` Eventually, when other fossil records are found, Sedna will help tell us how the Sun formed and the number of stars that were close to the Sun when it formed. '' A 2007 -- 2008 survey by Brown, Rabinowitz and Megan Schwamb attempted to locate another member of Sedna 's hypothetical population. Although the survey was sensitive to movement out to 1,000 AU and discovered the likely dwarf planet 2007 OR, it detected no new sednoid. Subsequent simulations incorporating the new data suggested about 40 Sedna - sized objects probably exist in this region, with the brightest being about Eris 's magnitude ( − 1.0 ). In 2014, astronomers announced the discovery of 2012 VP 113, an object half the size of Sedna in a 4200 - year orbit similar to Sedna 's and a perihelion within Sedna 's range of roughly 80 AU, which led some to speculate that it offered evidence of a trans - Neptunian planet. Classification Sedna compared to some other very distant orbiting bodies The Minor Planet Center, which officially catalogs the objects in the Solar System, classifies Sedna as a scattered object. However, this grouping is heavily questioned, and many astronomers have suggested that it, together with a few other objects ( e.g. 2000 CR 105 ), be placed in a new category of distant objects named extended scattered disc objects ( E-SDO ), detached objects, distant detached objects ( DDO ), or scattered - extended in the formal classification by the Deep Ecliptic Survey. The discovery of Sedna resurrected the question of which astronomical objects should be considered planets and which should not. On 15 March 2004, articles on Sedna in the popular press reported that a tenth planet had been discovered. This question was answered under the International Astronomical Union definition of a planet, adopted on 24 August 2006, which mandated that a planet must have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. Sedna has a Stern -- Levison parameter estimated to be much less than 1, and therefore can not be considered to have cleared the neighborhood, even though no other objects have yet been discovered in its vicinity. To be a dwarf planet, Sedna must be in hydrostatic equilibrium. It is bright enough, and therefore large enough, that this is expected to be the case, and several astronomers have called it one. Exploration Sedna will come to perihelion around 2075 -- 2076. This close approach to the Sun provides an opportunity for study that will not occur again for 12,000 years. Although Sedna is listed on NASA 's Solar System exploration website, NASA is not known to be considering any type of mission at this time. It was calculated that a flyby mission to Sedna could take 24.48 years using a Jupiter gravity assist, based on launch dates of 6 May 2033 and 23 June 2046. Sedna would be 77.27 or 76.43 AU from the Sun when the spacecraft arrives. See also List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun in 2015 Notes ^ Jump up to : Given the orbital eccentricity of this object, different epochs can generate quite different heliocentric unperturbed two - body best - fit solutions to the orbital period. Using a 1990 epoch, Sedna has a 12,100 - year period, but using a 2017 epoch Sedna has an 10,900 - year period. For objects at such high eccentricity, the Sun 's barycentric coordinates are more stable than heliocentric coordinates. Using JPL Horizons, the barycentric orbital period is approximately 11,400 years. Jump up ^ As of 2014, Sedna was about 86.3 AU from the Sun ; Eris, the most massive - known dwarf planet, and 2007 OR, the largest object in the Solar System without a name, are currently farther from the Sun than Sedna at 96.4 AU and 87.0 AU, respectively. Eris is near its aphelion ( farthest distance from the Sun ), whereas Sedna is nearing its 2076 perihelion ( closest approach to the Sun ). Sedna will overtake Eris as the farthest known large object in the Solar System in 2114, but the probable dwarf planet 2007 OR has recently overtaken Sedna and will overtake Eris by 2045. ^ Jump up to : Possible dwarf planet 2014 FE72 has a period of ~ 90,000 years, and small Solar System bodies such as ( 308933 ) 2006 SQ 372, 2005 VX 3, ( 87269 ) 2000 OO 67, 2002 RN 109, 2007 TG 422, and several comets ( such as the Great Comet of 1577 ) also have larger heliocentric orbits. Of the latter, only ( 308933 ) 2006 SQ, ( 87269 ) 2000 OO, and 2007 TG have a perihelion point farther than Jupiter 's orbit, so it is debatable whether or not most of these objects are misclassified comets. ^ Jump up to : Different programs using different epochs and / or data sets will produce slightly different dates for Sedna 's perihelion. Using a 2014 epoch, the JPL Small - Body Database has a perihelion date of 2076. Using a 1990 epoch the Lowell DES has perihelion on 2479282.9591 ( 2075 - 12 - 11 ) As of 2010, the JPL Horizons ( using numerical integration ) indicated a perihelion date of 2076 - Jul - 18. Jump up ^ The HST search found no satellite candidates to a limit of about 500 times fainter than Sedna ( Brown and Suer 2007 ). Jump up ^ The Stern -- Levison parameter ( Λ ) as defined by Alan Stern and Harold F. Levison in 2002 determines if an object will eventually clear its orbital neighbourhood of small bodies. 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( Audio help ) More spoken articles Media related to Sedna at Wikimedia Commons How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling ( 9 Jun 2015 ) NASA 's Sedna page ( Discovery Photos ) Mike Brown 's Sedna page 90377 Sedna at the JPL Small - Body Database Discovery Ephemeris Orbit diagram Orbital elements Physical parameters Minor planets navigator 90376 Kossuth 90377 Sedna ( 90378 ) 2003 WL23 Dwarf planets Asteroid belt IAU : Ceres No longer rounded and therefore not dwarf planets ( Former candidates : Pallas Vesta Hygiea ) Centaurs Possibly : Chariklo Chiron Centaurs ( extended ) Possibly : 1995 SN 55 ( lost ) Ceto 2010 TY 53 Plutinos IAU : Pluto Additional objects proposed by Brown and Tancredi : Orcus Ixion 2003 AZ 2004 UX Huya Possibly : 2003 UZ 2003 VS 2002 VR 2004 PF 2002 XV 93 2007 JH 43 2001 QF 298 Twotinos Possibly : 2002 WC Other resonances / unknown resonances : IAU : Haumea Possibly : 2002 XW 1999 DE 1999 KR 2001 YH 2011 GM 27 2010 VK 201 2013 FZ 27 2014 UM 33 1999 CD 158 Cubewanos : IAU : Makemake Additional objects proposed by Brown and Tancredi : 2002 MS Salacia Quaoar Varuna Varda 2004 GV 2002 AW 2002 TX 2005 RR 2003 OP 2005 RN Possibly : Chaos Altjira Sila - Nunam 2002 UX 2007 JJ 2005 UQ 2004 TY 2003 QW 1998 SN 2002 KX Praamzius 2004 NT 2010 FX 86 2002 CY 248 2010 VR 11 Rhadamanthus Scattered disc IAU : Eris Additional objects proposed by Brown and Tancredi : 2007 OR 1996 TL 2001 UR 2005 RM Possibly : 2002 TC 2004 XA 2005 QU 2006 QH 181 2007 UK 2010 EK 139 2010 KZ 39 2010 RE 64 2010 RF 43 2010 TJ 2013 FY 27 2008 OG 19 1996 GQ 2012 HH 1999 CC 2010 VZ 98 Area uncertain Captured satellites that were once dwarf planets : Triton ( captured by Neptune ) Phoebe ( captured by Saturn, and no longer rounded ) Possibly : 2011 FW 62 ( lost ) 2000 YW V774104 Detached objects Possibly : 2004 XR 190 2010 GB 174 2008 ST 291 1995 TL 2005 TB 2003 QX 113 2003 FY 2004 VN 112 2000 CR Sednoids Objects proposed by Brown and Tancredi : Sedna Possibly : 2012 VP 113 See also : Charon Vanth Dysnomia Hiʻiaka Mesoplanet Planemo List of trans - Neptunian objects List of possible dwarf planets List of Solar System objects List of Solar System objects by size Trans - Neptunian objects TNO classes Cubewanos Scattered - 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Question: where is sedna located in the solar system
Answer: in the outer reaches of the Solar System