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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OK...Erase the question...
I felt pretty tired, and went in to lie down about 0815, and the next thing I know, the phone is ringing, and when I came out here, the time was 0940. How did that happen?
Now I need to find something to eat, but it would have helped if I had had some grocery money when I logged on this morning.
The good thing is, the checks came, so at least I can pay the bills while I’m trying to find the other checks. Dang. This week is starting out very strangely. :o|
That's not so surprising. What's surprising is the year was 2006.
LOL! Afternoon. We were doing schoolwork. Later I fell asleep. Also Jake.
I put chili in the crockpot this morning, so we can eat supper any time. We plan to go to the water park.
I can’t hear about chili without thinking of the old Mexican weather forecast:
Chili today hot tamale.
But I would have been ten years younger AND ten years better looking!
I have to call an attorney this afternoon about a trust, and I really want to sleep. This is not good.
In the meantime, I’m going to make my list for the pills I’m going to get, and I hate doing that, as sometimes, the cost just keeps going up...
My grocery list is already made but there are some things I’m just not going to get because I can’t. But that’s not news.
I’d like to sleep more, too. Lots more. Maybe tonight: already warned the byos that they’re going to bed early because they didn’t get up this morning.
I don’t know why I’m so sleepy, now. The last couple of days have been really strange for me.
Maybe I’ll try to write some in my journal before I call that attorney.
Maybe.
All good paint schemes come to an end.
Many of our Choo-tjoes are now using purple and pink in the scheme, it is creepy.
Howya, Moose! Thanks for the kittehs while I was indulging in raucous debauchery ... well, sleep, and eating cheese and crackers while reading religious books ... in Mint Hill.
Good Morning TC.
:D
“Sleep and cheese crackers.....in Mint Hill.”
Glad to see you had a refreshing time.
The Kittehs presented themselves for inspection, as Kittehs are often apt to do.
I’m more comfortable with the raucous debauchery angle.
Of course, knowing you, it would more likely be very subdued and circumspect debauchery. It’s the quiet ones, they say.
Cheese, crackers ... there should have been wine.
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Religious books, hmm. I’m betting God is a Louis L’Amour fan. That would explain some things. What, you never thought about which books God would have in His library? Where do you think all those tomes and scrolls in Alexandria went?
I just hope I’ll have access.
“Where do you think all those tomes and scrolls in Alexandria went?”
Oh, that subject still burns.
If only for a time machine and a Photocopier.
There was wine, too. I never have cheese and crackers without wine. What’s the point?
I’m sure God enjoyed a Louis L’Amour yarn, and I’m looking forward to reading all the unwritten sequels on the other side of the war. Not sure I’ll be all that interested in the Greeks, although they do get points for consciseness.
Among other tomes, I was reading the diary of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador. It was very ... administrative ... in an interesting way. I ran out of time a couple of years before he was murdered in the cathedral.
What will your local library system say about you? Do you return things on time?
I do rescues.
A+ for extra effort!
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