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Scattered Disk
A disk of ice-rock objects in high eccentricity orbits in the ecliptic plane beyond Neptune. Scattered Disk objects (SDOs) may be escapees from the Kuiper Belt and/or scattered Uranus-Neptune planetesimals.
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