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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Good point, but you’re working on your own words. I’m just retyping others’.
I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about.
A vacuum cleaner with a little sawdust inside it, is great for insect swarm removal.
But allow a minimum of one minute running after last insect vanishes.
Also Cif bathroom spray stops Ants instantly, and stops further intrusion.
Most other flying insects can be stopped with Deodorant, or WD40 and a lighter.
LOL! Yes, and there is the stray one of those, as well! :o])
LOL - Good one!
Pages of words are done, all nice and readable for next Sunday. I’ll make some copies this evening and leave them at church for Norma.
I just came in from outside, for the usual reason...my backside was getting sore from sitting on that hard bench!
The humidity is up today, and it looks like a storm coming from the SE. *sigh* We need it, but oh, golly, it’s painful!
Theoretically; I use the same words that everyone else uses. At least those in the English Language.
But to formulate my own concepts, I have to torture the words a little, like taking a jigsaw puzzle apart, selecting the proper color pieces, perhaps sanding a bit on the joining parts, and jamming them together until they almost approximately fit.
And then someone says how effortless and lovely it all is. Just don't look too closely, folks.
Oh, wow. I just had a thought: I need to make some brownies! I will put that on my list of things...close to the bottom so I get the important stuff, first.
Foraging was disappointing, but it’s OK. Little kids in China are starving, and I’m complaining in the Land of Plenty. (Flashback to my childhood.)
I’m thinking I will go to church tomorrow, if I feel fairly good when I get up. It’s always a toss-up on Sundays. *sigh*
..any Not Me’s, I Don’t Knows, or I Was Outsides..
And they’re still here.
Wonder when school starts. ;-)
At least we aren’t alone. :o]
Mrs. NoC and Beautiful Daughter don't scream. They just encase the eight-appendaged-critter in the peanut butter jar (using the exact method you outline) and then leave it for me.
I don't understand why they don't take their prized capture outside and reverse the process, but they don't. Maybe they think that part is the job of the hunter-gatherer.
Beautiful Daughter also has no qualms about using the descending-shoe-compression-method to mush the wandering scutigera that should be in view. (Their presence is usually heralded by one or more felines playing with it.)
But they leave the stingythings to me.
Heck, those are the easiest ones. They don't even see the jar surrounding them on the glass or screen.
Of course it's important to not injure them when closing the door on their cage, but they seem quite grateful to be released from their prisons.
Evening, Bob. I hope things have gone nicely out there in Penn’s Woods today. We’re going on a Family Outdoorsiness Excursion tomorrow.
It has been a wonderfully pleasant day. The statewide air-conditioning has been working well.
We went to a family get-together where we were pleased to be buzzed by a Mitchell bomber showing off at a nearby air show.
Cool. I was regaling my nephew with tales of some of the strategic importance of battle strategies and tactics in the American Civil War and World War Eleven, and how things changed over the course of the war.
I took the scenic way home last Tuesday and dug a trench in my yard Wensday all because of the blue cut fire in the El Cajon pass. Only 140 miles. Went though Fawnskin and I think Radiator Spring was just to the east. 6 people from work were in evacuation areas. The news people don’t know what it means for a person to evacuate. I often get super double drink for my trip home. But I though it wiser not to. Kinda related having to evacuate subject.
A real Zot thread!
So, does that mean we can play with it???
I mean, for once, we could actually move like we always planned to...within 30 - 45 days of inhabiting a thread. Most of which, lately, have been donor threads. Thanks to the donors...
But it would be so nice to have a real ZOT! thread again!
That there makes me want to go back to bed.
I need more sleep shirts. The ones I have only last one night. The second night, I can’t stand them. *ungh*
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