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.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
And I have it on good authority that they gripe at an exponentially more frequent pace as the decades above that point elapse...
I would not be surprised if that were true.
Dr. Hall says that I’m younger than most of his patients.
I lift weights every day.
I lift myself out of bed.
And it makes more than just my joints cranky.
Yes. The joints DO gripe exponentially as the decades elapse. Yesindeedy.
W00t!
“damp and murder.”
LoL!
But in what order? :D
Oh, damp first. I’m sure that’s what makes them murderous.
Speaking of England, the Daily Mail says that Honeysuckle Weeks, who co-stars in “Foyle’s War,” is missing. The authorities are very concerned; apparently she has Issues.
I started to get that pressure behind my eyes. At times like these I never knew whether it was the goldenrod or the beginnings of the migraine that cases like this always brought. I learned a long time ago the more obvious the solution at first review the more difficult it would be to crack.
We had what my prosecutor friends call an unbelievable abundance of evidence pointing to her husband. It was so open and shut that the last thing I could afford to do was shut it. And that was before considering his title.
I rubbed my temples and thought how glad I was someone else would deal with the blood. All I had to worry about was the sweat and tears.
Nope, not goldenrood. Not this time.
I’m taking my tired self to bed. This day was stressful, but I don’t know why.
Tomorrow, I will go to Wally’s and find some mischief to get into. ;o]
‘Night lovies!
Fifty!
50?
Oh. Well, that explains a lot, actually.
Oh, wait. I'm not fifty. Thank goodness. Never mind.
Atmospheric!
‘Though she’s a lot prettier in A Tale of Two Clocks....
Good morning.
I like James Schmitz as a writer. He and I share some of the same ... ah, idiosyncrasies.
Ms. Weeks has been found. The information is very spotty, as is typical with the Daily Mail, but my theory is that her psychiatrist gave her a new medication that didn’t go quite right.
Yes, thankfully.
They announced it on the 6o’clock news this morning. Waiting the 5 seconds for the news reader to cut to the chase was interminable.
Dats cute. :)
Good morning! I’m about to leave for yoga class. My doctor said I should carefully stretch my shoulder! Frank and Kathleen are coming because it’s traditional to stop at Chick-fil-A on the way home from the gym on Saturday.
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