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The dwarf planet candidate Sedna (90377 Sedna) has no assigned symbol, and only Pluto and Ceres do.

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The dwarf planet candidate Sedna (90377 Sedna) has no assigned symbol, and only Pluto and Ceres do.

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Within our own solar system, an object known as 90377 Sedna, has the longest orbital period, which is equivalent to 11,400 years. It has a highly eccentric orbit, with a distance of 76AU from the sun at it's perihelion and 960AU at it's aphelion.

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It is a dwarf planet. 136199 Eris is just a large trans-Neptunian object like 136108 Haumea, 50000 Quaoar, 134340 Pluto, 136472 Makemake, 225088 (2007 OR10), 90482 Orcus and 90377 Sedna.

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Minor Planet number 90377 Sedna has never been moved from the asteroid classification. The IAU hasn't received enough data to say it is a dwarf planet because observations to check for things like hydrostatic equilibrium is so difficult for an object in the far out scattered disc section it resides in. Asteroids do not have hydrostatic equilibrium whereas Dwarf Planets do. Sedna may very well qualify as a Dwarf Planet; we just don't know yet.

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Yes, there is a celestial object called Sedna (90377 Sedna), which is a dwarf planet candidate orbiting far beyond Neptune and Pluto. Its closest approach to the Sun is about 1.5 times the maximum for Pluto, with an extreme elliptical orbit varying from 76 AU to 975 AU.

As the farthest identified object orbiting the Sun, Sedna takes about 12,000 Earth years to complete one orbit. It will reach its next closest approach to the Sun in the year 2075. Only the dwarf planet Eris is current farther from the Sun.

Its size is estimated at approximately three-quarters the size of Pluto, or about 1,000 miles (1200-1600 km) in diameter.

(For size comparison with Earth, Moon and Pluto, please see the link below)

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Sedna rotates very slowly. It takes at least 20 days to complete a rotation, maybe as long as 50 days. The gravitational pull of a moon would be the best explanation for this slow rotation. Almost all other minor bodies in the solar system rotate in a matter of hours. Pluto has a six-day rotation because it has a satellite, Charon. But Sedna has no moon.

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