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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Greetings ,HK.
I’ll have a Zebra checkout the Docking system.
Zebras can fix anything ,they have more strips than a Master Sergeant.
WooHoo!
Good Shot ,’Face. :)
I can’t sink. Never have been able to get to the bottom of a 7’ deep pool without massive amounts of effort. But I can float forever, with minimal effort, and my body will go where my fingers point. My son? If he quits moving, he will sink like a rock.
LOL! Hello, you! It’s so good to see you! :o])
I will try again tomorrow, and I’m sure The Jerk will appropriate my parking spot. I was lucky this morning, but I left about 18” between the rear bumper and the sidewalk in my excitement about finding The Jerk still gone!
He told Greg, the one on dialysis, that he was going to take that spot and there was nothing he could do about it. So, he has been making people miserable since he moved in, going so far as to have a tow truck put a derelict in there one Sunday morning. It stayed for a month. And then he got another car and has been a jerk ever since.
“...everything is movable.” Especially in earthquake country.
All children can swim, as can all living creatures.
Surviving the experience is another matter, entirely.
Hearing that long, mournful ol’ steam whistle brought me back to this:
Still remember hearing it on the AM radio out across the open country somewhere heading up to Wyoming to see Yellowstone.
When I was in UPT (undergraduate pilot training) I was taught that men drown more often than women.
The instructor was of the opinion that this was due to women being supplied from birth with bouyancy compensators which men lack.
Totally un-PC of course, but that was 1982.
All of my kids could swim by age 1. I had all but the oldest in a pool by 3 months. By 6 months, they were all proficient at holding their breath for a few seconds, and would swim towards the surface. They were always relaxed, and never panicked.
All of them, except #2, could swim the length of a pool by age 2. (I was in college, and didn’t have time or access to a pool).
Babies LOVE the water, it’s very natural for them if you introduce it early enough. If you wait until 3, it’s a lot harder.
It’s all about how much air you keep in your lungs.
Even as a skinny little kid, I couldn’t sink. That was BB, of course. My older sister? Not so much.
We did a water-tot class with our son. Oddly, he wound up as the worst swimmer of the brood. He’s fine in the water now, but not like his sisters, who missed out on the water-tot experience.
I can tumble calmly in a breaking wave until it lets go of me. I was always relaxed in the water. But I have to work to float.
Speaking of the Centennials, thirteen of them still survive, all but 6936 are stuffed and mounted. As are seven of the eight remaining Big Boys. You folk out west will get to see the one big boy that is no longer stuffed and mounted after Union Pacific steam shop finishes its rebuild. Too bad it will never come east (infrastructure in this neck of the woods can't handle the mammothness.. Stay tuned for the Return of 4014.
I have one of those.
And three more almost but not quite since they have varying sizes of white spots, including one with a white tip of tail..
Funny how that works. Not everyone is a natural.
I was a natural, but I haven’t been to a pool for years. My bad. I need to start going again.
Yeah... Combo of life events and a political silly season that is setting records for collective DUMB are keeping from posting much over here.
I just can’t believe the stuff that surfaces on FB, so I come back here for a breath of fresh air.
It’s good to see you here, too!
And yes, you are missed but a lot of us.
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