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• The new planetoid has been named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the ocean, and is eight billion miles away in the furthest reaches of the solar system, three times the distance from Earth than the previously furthest known planet, Pluto.
• The planetoid, believed to be half rock and half ice, is named after the Inuit goddess said to have created the sea creatures of the Arctic.
• The Paraman The small, fuse-replacing servo which had caused near panic among the entire population of, a planetoid was a funny little thing. The Dragon Lensman
• But starships with the fire-power to take out small planetoids becomes nothing more than frustrating when facing the return of the souls of the dead. Review: The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton | Missions Unknown
• But Sedna is smaller and more eccentric still, so if you count out Pluto, you have to count out Sedna too (and all the other remote planetoids discovered over the past few years).
• If Sedna did form this far out, it is likely to be accompanied by a cohort of other large planetoids in this very distant region of the solar system.
• I didn't know all planets and planetoids were officially supposed to be named after gods of mythology.
• Looking back, the spaceship was pretty much shaped like a sex toy and even at the age I was watching it I knew enough about astronomy and physics to know that their constant running into inhabited "planetoids" they were always "planetoids" for some reason, not moons or planets and mysterious lack of free-fall was silly, but I just loved their "running" effects and it made me giggle. Archive 2006-04-01
• Another highly notable location is the galaxy's largest spaceship dump, which may be found around the back side of the planetoid.
• Tiny prospecting ships led a hazardous life, threading their way through the rubble-strewn periphery of the system, avoiding meteor swarms, clouds of hull-eating bacteria, space pirates, peanut-size empires on remote artificial planetoids -- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Infinites - Philip K. Dick