A Once In A Lifetime Opportunity To Reach Sedna, The Former Planet X

Hey guys, we need to do something… we need to make ourselves heard!
By whom? By NASA, of course!
Why? Well, it's about Sedna, the great little world that has been moving in the Kuiper Belt, at the edge of the solar system, for billions of years.
Sedna is a trans-Neptunian object known primarily for its highly elliptical orbit, which takes a whopping 11,390 years to complete one trip around the Sun. Currently, Sedna is heading towards its perihelion (its closest point to the Sun), which it will reach in 2076 before heading back into the depths of space, not to return for millennia. This makes the upcoming flyby a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study an object from the far reaches of our solar system.
Sedna is the first object we've ever found that might have originated from the Oort Cloud. If we really want to seize this opportunity, we need to get to work immediately and plan a mission that can launch within the next twenty years…
NASA is considering it, but there's a risk that the decision might be negatively influenced by what psychologists call the “old father syndrome,” which in this case refers to the scientific community's inability to get excited about projects that would only see completion many years after the participants' lives or careers have ended…
In short, NASA is crunching the numbers and will have to give an answer soon, but there's widespread fear that this enormous opportunity might ultimately be missed.
Can we do something about it? Obviously not… these are decisions made above our heads, driven by economic reasons and only partly scientific ones.
But maybe we can try to understand more about it, to start a debate wherever we can make our opinion known.
What do you say, shall we give it a try?
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DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA

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00:00 Intro
2.20 Where does our Solar System ‘end’?
6:26 What we have discovered
8:25 How can Sedna have a so strange Orbit?
9:40 The origin of Sedna
12:30 The evidence of planet 9
13:30 Future missions
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#insanecuriosity #sedna #planetx

[InsaneCuriosity]

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[BrandanTheBroker]

One of my biggest gripes about NASA, and its not NASA's fault, is they need a level of semi-autonomy to be able to plan and execute missions without the fear that every 4 years someone new may come in and give the axe to whatever the last guy had going on. Let's plan some cool missions and not have them cancelled or funding cut for something the new Head Idiot In Charge wants to do

[nicksmeltzer]

I really hope NASA gets approval for this mission.

[NothingverseOfficial]

Imagine living on Sedna—sunlight barely reaching the surface

[mospeada]

It's unfortunate that such missions take such a long time, but we owe it to our children and beyond.

[martinsly]

I'll be 97 and will be watching that news on channel 3!!!

[LuisMolinatorres]

12:19 es cierto debe haber un planeta grande pero una órbita más excéntrica que sedna que hace que sedna siga la misma trayectoria

[jclark]

This is the Ultimate Opportunity for Extreme-distance Observation, Measurement, and RELAY Infrastructure! Space Stations are Nothing to having your own Planetary Base!

Though I absolutely Insist it must be called 'Moonbase Alpha'.

[steven_-zf]

I’ll be 70-71 years old when the dwarf planet Sedna comes to its perihelion point from the sun at 76 astronomical units away from the sun. Sedna actually takes more than 11, 400 years to complete just one orbit around the sun! So, each season on Sedna takes a little over 2, 850 years!

[Janus_Artz]

Pluto technically is Planet X, not Sedna

Just like how Ceres is Planet V and Eris is Planet 10

[arturosilva]

Y en qué beneficia saber algo de ese planeta???

[miketaylor]

I'd try to put 2 or 3 observational probes on Sedna with deep space telescopes and beam signals from earth to observe various sections of the sky in the Oort cloud with two way communications for centuries or 100 years maybe. A n observational outpost like that would be good hundreds of AU's out in the solar system and deep space! And the designs would probably be better than Voyagers were. They could build one probe a little later. then stagger the completion of the next one or two for better design quality possibly in the future.

[PluralClarity]

The question of who will get credit is silly, since the names of all participants will undoubtedly be clearly documented. They need to make this happen and to include enhancements and/or the type of connectivity that will ensure that the vessel's journey will be able to continue well after the primary mission is completed.

[wentrumil]

Mejor sería una misión a Eris, el segundo mayor planeta enano casi del tamaño de Plutón, que fue el que realmente desbancó a Plutón de su categoría de planeta "clásico" para degradarlo a "planeta enano"; esto es para confirmar si efectivamente es más pequeño que Plutón o si en realidad es más grande.
Recordemos que el diámetro real de Plutón se confirmó con la visita de la New Horizons por lo que con Eris podría pasar lo mismo.

[James-kdoe]

I would be 102 when that happened but hey if I am still around I would check it out.

[Caligula.IO_]

The Dryas Cataclysms occurred about 11, 000 years ago

[Javiducho]

El audio español tiene problemas de edición (superposición con el original y velocidad de reproducción, básicamente) qué afectan la inteligibilidad del video, lo que es una lastima dado el tema que trata.

Y sí, apoyaría una misión tal, aunque descreo que la NASA haga lo propio. ¿Esperar tres generaciones para recoger el rédito científico? No creo que estemos preparados para operar en esa sintonía, con toda franqueza.

[A.D.]

I feel if NASA becomes independent it will be able to be free to do it's mission more easily. I know it's going to hard for many different reasons but that my wish.

[LuisMolinatorres]

Sabemos que la estrella alfa centauri c tienen una órbita alargada y es la más cercana a nuestro sol, entonces no deberíamos sorprendernos por sedna

[chusnorrisdos]

Y cuando se lance quede la sonda desfasada. :)