Posted on 07/12/2016 8:03:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Pluto isn't quite as lonely as scientists had thought.
Astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy objects beyond Neptune. But this newfound world, dubbed 2015 RR245, is much more distant than Pluto, orbiting the sun once every 700 Earth years, scientists said. (Pluto completes one lap around the sun every 248 Earth years.)
"The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then moved out from the sun," discovery team member Michele Bannister, of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, said in a statement. "They let us piece together the history of our solar system."
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The exact size of 2015 RR245 is not yet known, but the researchers think it's about 435 miles (700 kilometers) wide. Pluto is the largest resident of the Kuiper Belt, with a diameter of 1,474 miles (2,371 km).
The research team first spotted 2015 RR245 in February of this year, while poring over images that the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii took in September 2015 as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
"There it was on the screen — this dot of light moving so slowly that it had to be at least twice as far as Neptune from the sun," Bannister said.
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Hmmm..
But now that you mention it maybe there’s Hope for Jeb! in government. And Mrs. Jeb! wouldn’t need to learn another language either.
Of course Jeb! would need to get by Bernie who is sure to want first dibs at the post.. ;-)
Jeb could be Ambassador to Texas.
..or Mexifornia. ;-)
Of all the people I know who studied foreign languages, I’m the only one I know who actually uses one. My brother could order food and drinks and buy a pair of shoes in German and Italian, but since he moved to England and then the U.S., he’s back to the equivalent of, “Hi, howaya?”
LOL!
This has been a strange day, so I’m going to bed. My back is not happy.
Sorry about your back! I’m in a discussion on the neighborhood “Next Door” message board about a bearskin rug for sale. Tom might love it. The owner really wants to sell - he needs the money - but Tom won’t be home until tomorrow. When he gets here, I’ll find out if he thinks it’s worth quite a bit of money, or if he actually wouldn’t want it at all.
She speaks Dutch, of course, her mother was German, so she spoke that with her mother. She learned French in school. Moved to the US in her 20’s and learned English, then moved to Mexico when her husband retired and immediately learned Spanish. She is fluent in 5 languages! I find that amazing!
Anyone is welcome to the Undead Thread. That is an impressive accomplishment. The relationships among the languages would have helped: Dutch and German are very similar. Dutch and English are very similar. And of course, French and Spanish are closely related.
I speak Spanish, but I can read French and Italian well enough to get the sense of a newspaper article, although out loud I have a ghastly accent.
My brother and I are very good at picking up enough of a language to get by, but our father was tone-deaf and always had to make do with gestures, a big smile, and his military uniform. I remember spending a long car trip trying teach him to say, “Dame dos cervezas, por favor,” “Please give me two beers,” but it was hopeless.
LOL! I took two semesters of Japanese in college. I remember how to say, “Where is the bathroom?” and “Shut up and die!” (It was the 80s.)
LOL! Yes I get it! ; )
Our instructor said, “When someone asks you to say something in Japanese, say, ‘Asoko e ite, shizuka ni, shiinde kudaasai.’ “
According to her, that means, “Shut up and die,” basically.
Well, Tom turned up (as indicated on the calendar) and says that he’s not interested in the bearskin at the price, even with some gifty help. Cebu. I hope the guy find a buyer.
Shut up and die!
Does that have anything to do with Pearl Harbor?
I doubt it.
My Japanese teacher was a little girl during World War II. After the war, her parents sent her to a Methodist Church school, and she became a Christian. She came to the United States for college and married an American.
Everyone has a story.
Some of us, more than one. These are usually lies.
Anoreth has a story about the death of Fidel Castro that involves a lot of rum. I suggested she include food.
Then we saw the newspaper with a story about tourist destination being shot up by the rebels. Many people killed. We decided not to go. I have always wished that we had gone because Cuba was not the same place soon after that. Castro took control in 1959.
Bob I meant to include you in my last post.
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