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.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Now , I never actually said : "Under cooked Chinese Takeaway."
snow shovels and fan type rakes are the only tools for fallen pine needles.
A Zombie Safe-Place.
“Of course, you have to have a place to put the leaves. I use a pickup truck.”
By the time you’ve driven to the City Dump to dispose of them in the expected manner they have all made a run for it, just as you came along that convenient stretch of fast road? :)
Cable clamp, extra heavy duty
LoL,
Arc Welding class, in 3....2.....1.....
A skill you can learn in a flash.
My goodness! We sure had fun when I logged off! Woo-hoo! The UT helps me to keep my sanity, Ganag, and I can’t think of my life without it.
We DID search for a name for it in the beginning, but it was, still is, and will be The Undead Thread aka The Flaying Castle (because of the events of the Genesis of the UT) and that it will remain.
But whatever we call it, it’s “home” to me! :o])
That was punny, Bob.
I don’t like the looks of that at all.
Good morning. I’ll be taking the Offspring for a constitutional around the subdivision in a little while, since we don’t have time to go to the park every day. Meanwhile, Pat and James are pulling up grass from the flowerbeds, because I told them I wouldn’t give them extra money for activities on their campout this weekend unless they did some work.
Tom left for school, but Elen doesn’t have class today. Well, Elen doesn’t have much class most days, except compared to Tom, but there’s always hope ...
Thought you might be interested in this article from today’s “Wall Street Journal.” I don’t think you can read the whole thing at the site, but with what you can see, you might be able to find the info at another source.
Be sure to tell them that “bless his heart” is not the introduction to a kind sentiment.
It doesn’t take to many cars crushed by the front-end loader for people to catch on, does it?
I’M asking YOU which lectures?
That reminds me of the person who said, “I’m not sure what the network of the future will look like, but I’m sure it will be called ‘ethernet.’”
Now that the Constitution is, essentially, toilet-paper we’ll have to think up another name for healthy walks.
Jeeze, Bob! You didn’t CATCH this? Tax-chick? You, either?
“...aka The Flaying Castle...”
*sheesh* I REALLY need to wake up before I try to post things...
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