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New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit
space.com ^
| 07/11/2016
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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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: 2015rr245; dwarf; dwarfplanet; fungiofyuggoth; hoverdogproject; koalaoil; molassesmiasma; monkeyfacerules; penguinhumor; planet; pluto; rhesusmonkeys; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere; xplanets; yuggothabekidding
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To: NoCmpromiz
Hahahaha! That’s almost better than coffee, this morning!
1,781
posted on
08/10/2016 4:10:51 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
( Carry a knife with you in case there is cheesecake or you meet someone who needs to be stabbed.)
To: Tax-chick
FedEx lost a computer to Japan?? That’s a new low...
1,782
posted on
08/10/2016 4:12:27 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
( Carry a knife with you in case there is cheesecake or you meet someone who needs to be stabbed.)
To: Monkey Face
Seems weird to me, too, but I assume it will get here eventually.
1,783
posted on
08/10/2016 4:16:00 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: NoCmpromiz
1,784
posted on
08/10/2016 4:37:30 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Tax-chick
Of course! All orange kittehs should be named Charlie! LOL!
1,785
posted on
08/10/2016 4:40:17 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
( Carry a knife with you in case there is cheesecake or you meet someone who needs to be stabbed.)
To: Monkey Face
I just refilled the hummingbird feeders.
1,786
posted on
08/10/2016 4:43:40 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: NoCmpromiz; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; moose07; null and void; NicknamedBob
NoCMPromiz posted:
An illegal alien from Mexico was heard singing "Besoms Neigh Mucho" after seeing these parked.
Don't blame me, was the Bullwinkle show that made me so.
1,787
posted on
08/10/2016 4:56:02 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Covenantor
O. Ne. Zot.
That is the worst pun I have seen in a long, LONG time.
1,788
posted on
08/10/2016 4:58:02 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: Tax-chick; NoCmpromiz; Monkey Face; moose07
Tom sympathizes with your engine shipping saga: his new computer, which Fed Ex said would be here before 8:00 last night, is actually in Japan.
That Pokemon Go thing really snarled traffic in Japan.
1,789
posted on
08/10/2016 5:13:02 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Covenantor
6!
That cleared the boundary rope.
And a few runs thrown in to boot. :)
1,790
posted on
08/10/2016 5:23:23 AM PDT
by
moose07
(DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) The only thing you should do on the Left is Drive.)
To: Covenantor
1,791
posted on
08/10/2016 5:29:43 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; moose07
"I just refilled the hummingbird feeders." That stuff sure seems to go fast.
1,792
posted on
08/10/2016 5:41:23 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
To: NicknamedBob
The one on the sunroom window holds less than 1 cup, so it’s often empty in a day.
1,793
posted on
08/10/2016 5:42:46 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: Tax-chick
I bought a hummingbird feeder, but I’m still at odds as to where to hang it. If I lived in any apartment but this one, I could hang it with no problem. But this one, the patio is open to the prevailing winds during storms (most come from the SE) and the feeder sways so much it loses the nectar, and only the ants have a feast.
So where to put it?...
1,794
posted on
08/10/2016 5:49:08 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
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To: Monkey Face
Does your patio have a railing? You could secure it to the railing.
1,795
posted on
08/10/2016 5:59:12 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: Tax-chick
No, the patio has a six-foot picket privacy fence with a four-foot gate. I thought of trying to hang it from that, but I don’t think it will work. It would eventually attract ants, and then I’d really have a problem.
So I will cogitate on the subject a while longer.
1,796
posted on
08/10/2016 6:02:07 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
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To: Monkey Face
The plumber has been and gone. For a fee, we have a working toilet again. I’ve just sent Pat to try it: hopefully it doesn’t make the Noise anymore, which is why Epic Fail got involved in the first place.
1,797
posted on
08/10/2016 6:14:22 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: Monkey Face; moose07; ArGee; Covenantor; NicknamedBob
1,798
posted on
08/10/2016 6:15:22 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: Tax-chick
Well, I didn’t hear the Noise, so I guess it was worth it.
1,799
posted on
08/10/2016 6:18:31 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: Tax-chick
1,800
posted on
08/10/2016 6:20:58 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
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