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Published online 15 March 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040315-1
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Astronomers spy new 'planet'
Sedna spotted far beyond Pluto.
Mapsof our Solar System may have to be redrawn to include a tenth planet.
The object has been named Sedna, after the Inuit goddess of the ocean.
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