New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit

space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

[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.

[moose07]

If I’m reading that correctly, it is illegal to pump your own ‘Gas’ in NJ?

[ArGee]

It twoo. It twoo.

People in Joisey iz too stoopid to pump they own gaz.

[ArGee]

Gimme the beets, boys, to free my soul

[ArGee]

So...

[ArGee]

2345!

[Monkey Face]

Good snag, Ar Gee!

[moose07]

Hey, Beetroot .......My favourite vegetable.

[Monkey Face]

Mine, too!

[Monkey Face]

Mine, too!

[moose07]

Freshly boiled and steaming hot...... Yummy.

[Tax-chick]

It was naptime. It went better. Now I’m going back to cleaning my closet. I got all my “Great Courses” lectures out and found there’s an entirely college education, other than foreign language, and I already know a foreign language.

[Tax-chick]

That was cute. Pat agrees.

[Monkey Face]

With salt and butter!

[Monkey Face]

And I agree with you and Pat, T-c!

I just drafted a letter of complaint for one of the residents. He had a fling with a gal who pretty much forced herself on him, and when he was tired of her, he 86’d her. She has been waging a public war against him ever since, and a bunch of us are tired of it.

She gets up in the meetings and calls him names and begins to rail on him, and she has been told by HUD/SNRHA/Espinoza authorities to basically shut up and sit down. The next meeting she does it again.

So. LuDean says she will do nothing more for him (having to do with the resident council that has been suspended) until such time as he files a formal complaint. And that’s where I come in. “The Secretary.” (Ha. Ha.)

And lucky me, neither Zeke nor LuDean is home so I can’t get either one to read it until tomorrow.

And I went ahead and ordered checks. I can’t wait any longer.

[moose07]

I’m about to put the Hibiscus ‘on’.....Joining me? :)

[Monkey Face]

I could do that! I usually drink it cold, but I will have a hot cuppa with you, by all means, thanks!

[moose07]

It’s in the device Brewing......
Another couple of mins and .......Shlup. :)

[Tax-chick]

Gah.

I forgot to say, I lost another fraction this week.

[ArGee]

Google images can be dangerous.

[ArGee]

Does the letter of complaint read anything like this?