A new planet has swum into our ken, an icy sphere 1,000 miles across and four times farther from the sun than Pluto.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* A new planet has swum into our ken, an icy sphere 1,000 miles across and four times farther from the sun than Pluto. Though astronomers were pleased to observe this object, its existence was not much of a surprise. Theory has long suggested that planetoids made of rock and ice should be scattered through trans-Plutonian space. There is in fact a debate about whether these objects are properly planets at all. Be that as it may, this new object has been provisionally named Sedna, after an Eskimo sea-goddess. Here is yet another bit of pointless "diversity" pandering. What part did the Eskimos play in the development of ...