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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Aaron Burr says it in “Hamilton.”
O hai! There you were with a clear field ...
We walked two miles and then did some schoolwork. After lunch I will go to Walmart.
It was a funny movie with an excellent cast.
Did you happen to get anything in a plain brown wrapper in the last few days? Just curious.
The laundry is done, and the bed is made, and I am all tuckered out. I will need a breathing treatment before the day is over. Which reminds me: as I was stripping the bed, I found a vial from one of the nebulizer meds on top of the bottom sheet at the foot of the bed. I just can’t think of how it could have gotten there! Funny stuff!
Right after I opened the doors at 0600, Zeke came in to do laundry, and we talked a bit about the “non-council” and how this place is functioning quite well without one. Of course, we are always “dark” in July and August, but the council was suspended almost as soon as the new board was sworn in in March. The place IS functioning without a council. I keep saying we don’t need one. A lot of people agree with me, so they (the “suits” on Flamingo Rd) don’t need to reinstate the council.
I was working on my personal history last week, and just got to a very difficult part and this thing shut down. No warning, no nothing. It does it quite often. I thought OpenOffice saved the work every five minutes or so, but it wasn’t there when I booted back up and pulled up the document. So I will work on trying to remember to save it ever few minutes. This computer is nothing but junk. I will never get another Dell.Period.
The guy who played Perry Mason???
No, the Vice President.
You’ve been working with the Lab team?
Done good work with the Lab team in the past.
See my 2591, current partner is only half-Lab, much smarter.
Someone tried to give me a lab at church on Saturday night.
The actor was VP?
I thought Reagan was the first to pioneer the move from show-biz to poly-ticks.
Hahaha!
You’ve been hanging around libtards too long, Dude! LOL!
Whaddya expect? I live in NYC.
Here a conservative is someone who just pays his taxes without complaining they aren’t high enough.
Chessie was the 'mascot' for the C&O passenger service. As the passenger business dried up (and ended in 1971 when Amtrak was formed) she became less visible.
In 1973 the C&O (along with the B&O and Western Maryland) was rolled into the 'Chessie System' which used the Ches-C as their logo..
In 1980 Chessie System merged with Seaboard Coast Lines and present day CSX was born. CSX continued to use the Ches-C logo until about 1986 when CSX introduced its own paint scheme.
And Chessie quietly disappeared.
Except in the hearts and minds of ferroequinologists.
Iron horse enthusiasts.
Yeah.
That’s what I said.. ;-)
So where can we go to get Chessie merchandise, since she lives in the hearts of so many...?
(Didn’t we have this discussion not to long ago?)
So did you take the Lab? They are big, goofy, clumsy dogs that are prone to eat the rocks that are thrown into the water for their amusement. And that means vet bills. LOTS of vet bills.
I don’t want a Lab. Of all the dog breeds I can think of, this is the one I was never interested in.
No, I explained that we didn’t want a lab, although they can be perfectly nice for other people, I’m sure.
The package bunneh brought me some good for my feet, thanks!
Well, shoot. Gene Wilder has died.
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