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 ...
Hope you have a good night. We’re supposed to get storms by tomorrow. Epic Fail mowed the front lawn.
"23 It All Sounds Like Doubletalk" is a chapter heading.
Thirty-seven chapters, three hundred thirty-seven pages.
I think in that format I made the pages too small. It’s only 81,000 words.
Oh, boy! Do I ever need one of those!
That’s a big-eyed floof!
I’ve leaned one thing about the steroid: It acts like a diuretic. Remind me only to take it in the MORNINGS! LOL!
The other two meds work on the lungs by expulsion, but this one is so different. My legs look really skinny this morning! ;o]
One of our neighbors has gone to jail on some bench warrants, and his “significant other” is extremely frail and can’t take care of herself. She refuses to acknowledge that he’s in jail, preferring, instead, to claim he is in CA visiting his daughter, or he is “somewhere, I don’t know where the hell he goes, the &$@%*#!” She doesn’t even know how to use a cellphone.
The rest of the place is just one big rumor mill. And it’s hurting people.
Good morning. Sorry about your legs!
We are back from the Non-optional Family Exercise Excursion. They were unusually annoying today. Frank decided to wear a coat because the temperature has dropped a little below 80. Hopefully he learned something from being required to keep it on the whole two miles.
Good morning all.
As of today I have officially exited the double-nickel phase of my life.
The Route-66 phase isn’t looking far behind.
Oh, if only...
Happy birthday! Look around, look around, at how lucky you are to be alive right now ... in the greatest city in the world!
I am always thankful to be alive, but I might preffer a time when the stupid is less thick. Was there ever such a time?
So, what are forecasters saying about Hermine in yoour neck of the woods? The track map looks pretty bleak.
It looks like it’s brushing by us to the southeast. We’ve had a little rain, no noticeable wind, and tomorrow’s forecast has 80s again with rain unlikely.
I hope it doesn’t shift slightly northwest and pour all over the Missionaries of the Poor, because I have four big cakes in the freezer to feed the poor tomorrow!
As a student of history, I have to say, No, there wasn't ... but there was a time when the Outrageously Stupid got less publicity and therefore was easier to ignore. There was also a time when one was more likely to die of Stupid than to be rewarded for it.
Route 66 is rapidly approaching, next stop The Twilight Zone...
LOL!
Excellent! Back in the ‘70’s, I bought Lablady (she was a VERY short Lablady, then!) a new coat from Spiegel, and since we lived in Fremont CA, I figured it would be Late October before it was cool enough to wear it. (This was in July.)
I was doing the usual housecleaning, and I see her come down the stairs with her new coat on. I said, “Girl? You go back up and hang that coat in the closet! It’s 80 degrees outside!” Her response? The wind was blowing.
I see Frank (quite often) as a mini-Lablady, complete with the whining.
BTW: I don’t knoow if this is really clever programming or creepy.
When I go to the Google search page it wishes me a happy birthday.
Happy Birthday, you late bloomer! Sixty-six ain’t all that, so don’t look forward to it with too much excitement. It does spell “retirement,” though, if you’re so inclined.
I think it’s creepy.
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