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Scattered disc and detached objects

  • Detached objectIn the year 2003, astronomers discovered an object named Sedna that did not fit any known category of trans-Neptunian objects.
  • Scattered discThe scattered disc is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small Solar System bodies.
  • Eris (dwarf planet)On the 5th of January 2005, a team led by Mike Brown at Palomar Observatory announced the discovery of Eris. The object had actually been captured in images…