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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Jake will forgive all at the next offering of food..
Cats are like that. ;-)
Humans have no idea how close they live to annihilation when cats are present. If the critters had thumbs...it wouldn’t be a pretty sight.
LOL!
;>)
It is because they do not have opposable thumbs that they wave learned to train us to do their bidding..
Jake was over his pique by the time I got to bed for my overdue nap.
I always figured them for four-legged space aliens who would have taken over the planet by now if they had realized they needed thumbs and a language we could actually converse in. As it stands, they may have been giving us orders since the Egyptians venerated them as gods, but the language barrier got in the way.
Mao.
I wanted to scan some photos today, but had to settle for printing up the instructions for the process. And I can tell you for sure, that was so much easier to do on this printer than on the HP!
I think I’m gonna love this thing!
See that? Jake has you trained to bawl me out! LOL!
Oh, is that what I said?
I’m pretty sure....
Good!
LOL!
I know when I’ve been bested, so I’m going to go lick my wounds and smooth the rough patches in my fur. I hope Jake is proud of himself. ;o]
I’m a little achy this afternoon, so I think bed is really where I belong. See all of you in the morning!
I hope you have a good night! Bill the Son is going to grill some chicken for me, when he gets around to it.
I hope it’s good chicken. I was just wishing I had some ground beef so I could make some sloppy joe’s. I get a hankering for them every so often.
I’ll check my funds and if there is enough, I’ll head for Wally’s in the early AM.
PS: You have a good night, too!
Thanks! I hope I will!
That's a excellent start on a memorable poem. May I suggest:
"Ol’ Deaf June had a Maine Coon,
and he was tiger striped gray and black.
When she took ill, he didn't take it well,
and that's when he'd attack.
When she went on, to her own reward,
the cat went on to the neighbor.
But it wasn't long, as you'll know from the song,
that he followed her path and repaid her.
For a lifetime of loving, and giving out treats,
for a lifetime of being there for him,
he followed his mistress beyond the great veil,
and that's why I wrote down this poem."
Polish it up a little bit, and you'll have a hit country song.
Get Willy Nelson to record it for you, and you can skip all the intermediary steps.
:D
That Tea leaf holder is one of those images that just hangs around in your head all day, rent free.
It shows that we have our politicians too much on our minds theses days.
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