Asian names for planets

Description:They've called it Sedna. So how do planets get their names? When astronomers at the California Institute of Technology plumped for Sedna, it was not a decision taken lightly. They named it after the Inuit goddess of the sea who, according to some versions of her story, was thrown into Arctic waters by her father. It seems appropriately chilly, as the team believes Sedna's surface temperature does not get above minus degrees Celsius, because it can be up to 84 billion miles billion km from the Sun - times further than the Earth. There is, however, some debate about whether the scientists actually have the authority to decide a name.

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