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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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Um, yes. What you said.
W00t!
May I assume that you didn’t understand him either, ‘Face?
I just had someone on another thread call me a cult member. He thinks I’m a Southern Baptist.
I’m series.
That would be a very good assumption! But some days, it’s just best to agree!
If they knew about my devotion to Cthulhu ...
I get a real kick out of people who view every religion but their own as “a cult.” Those folks are in series need of brain transplants.
Hahahahaha!
There is that, of course!
I’m offended on behalf of my friends and neighbors who *are* Southern Baptists.
An appropriate home for the Bushes and Doofus Willard!!!
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The Mormons believe that Southern Baptists are very hard to “convert” but once they have accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no stronger ally. I believe it.
I admire Southern Baptists.
*tagline*
The important thing is that you made it. I would hate to have you wandering about the Habitats, getting your days and nights mixed up, running into the shifting wall and doors of the Lower Levels, and the occasional mad zombie. You could wander forever ‘neath the Streets of the Flying Castle while someone handed you a sandwich periodically.
Bob will ‘splain the Habitats to you, I’m sure. I keep getting mixed up on those...
Oh, now I see.
Many fine people, good neighbors, contributors to the community, are Southern Baptist.
If it was discovered in Hawaii and is a Dwarf I say it should be named Menehune.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menehune
I’m happy to live near the laundry room.
Good job with the song reference, ‘Face. I was actually thinking of that this morning when Sally made a joke in a Boston accent.
My reply: “I WILL FOLLOW YOU AND RECITE THE ALPHABET UNTIL YOU START ACTING LIKE A RESPONSIBLE MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY. A B C D ...”
Do you have a good relationship with the yard crew? A weedwhacker can usually do the job OK.
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