# Now THAT's a Small World

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-small-world/234409>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 15, 2004, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-small-world/234409 "2004-03-15T12:00:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-small-world/234409/1 "2004-03-15T12:00:40Z")

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Scientists from NASA are about to announce that they think they’ve discoverd [a tenth planet](http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/14/planet.discovery/index.html) in our solar system. Depends on your definition of planet, of course (since we can’t even agree about Pluto), but cool stuff anyway. The newbie is called Sedna, it’s about 3 billion km farther from the Sun than Pluto is, and it’s a small fry with a diameter of less than 2,000 km.

Everybody say, “Hi, Sedna!” 😉