posted April 10, 2009 04:36 PM         

I want to point out that Nessus is not a transneptunian. Neptune is more distant from the Sun than Nessus is.

Nessus is classed as a centaur like Chiron,Nessus,Asbolus,and dozens of others

transneptunians are known as kuiper belt objects. Eris,Pluto,Makemake,Haumea,Sedna,Orcus,Quaoar,Ixion,and Varuna are the largest kuiper belt objects, and the kuiper belt has over thousands of them.

there are 3 other large kuiper belt objects that don't have names yet too.

posted April 10, 2009 05:02 PM         

this is some of Roy MacKinnon's keywords for Sedna

Victim, sacrifice sometimes unavoidable: transformation of victimhood – losses, possibly emotional, in mundane house where Sedna is, particularly if afflicted: inevitable fate – destiny: not of this world – worlds in collision – not of this culture, not of this time: uncovering that which is hidden, remote, unseen: concealed and acting unseen in an inky blackness: search for new knowledge in an alien world: issues around preservation of that which is untouched, essential, numinous: purposeful activity fuelled by a burning inner spiritual drive not of the personality: superconscious perception which incorporates a multi-dimensional mystical universe: far-sighted intelligence: misperception of reality – delusional, self-deception: release of soul to the world of spirit in the process of dying: psychic/mediumistic – this world connected to the other: the suffering of the unloved, outcast, sick, homeless, limbless: Noah's ark – preservation of what would otherwise become extinct: buried alive – entombed: Thy Will, not my will: essence not personality: preservation of nature and ecosystems: receptive to a spiritual calling from afar: the power of water: in this world but not of it. http://zanestein.com/keywords.html#Sedna

the kuiper belt objects and centaurs have highly eccentric,elliptical orbits. These objects tend to orbit off the ecliptic.

With the kuiper objects and centaurs orbit beyond Saturn,the planet of physical boundaries they can be considered metaphysical. the kuiper belt objects orbit beyond Neptune,and they would be considered even more metaphysical to the point that go beyond the dissolution of boundaries and relate more to the "other side",the hidden,the subterranean depths

I don't think the kuiper belt objects and centaurs have much in common with the planets...especially not in the physical and orbital features. they might have some things in common with the outerplanets, Uranus in regards to nonconformity, and Neptune in regards to sensitivity,subtleties

I think of Neptune like the seas,oceans,the waves,as well as where water and air meet and water and land meet. but I think of Sedna as "the deep" of the seas,oceans itself.

Philip Sedgwick referred to kuiper belt objects as intensified evolutionary objects.

Raymond