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.

[NicknamedBob]

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[Tax-chick]

I see your point.

[Tax-chick]

Excess.

[Tax-chick]

[null and void]

Fangs uh, Thanks, I thought later that it might have sounded harsh...

[Tax-chick]

It did at first, but then I realized what you meant, and it was amusing.

[Tax-chick]

Hope you have a nice Saturday! I’m about load up the troops - some volunteers, some conscripts - to go feed the poor in Monroe. “At least we get cake,” grumbled a particularly grumbly son.

[Monkey Face]

You missed a comma after the last “of.”

[Monkey Face]

I just went to Walgreen’s to get some nitroglycerin, (which was free) and realized I have only 1/4 tank of gas, and at this point, can’t fill it. There isn’t enough in the budget to do that and take care of everything else I have to take care of.

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[null and void]

Thanks, but the day/weekend will be filled with scraping off old flooring and painting. I have high hopes of getting the place livable in time for the move.

High hopes.

[null and void]

She might have paid good money for those fangs for all we know!

[moose07]

“nitroglycerin”

Stay clear of bumpy roads.
:)
My Nan was on that stuff.
When they dropped the casket at her funeral we all hit the Deck.

[null and void]

RIMMER: (VO) After intensive investigation, comma, of the markings on the alien pod, comma, it has become clear, comma, to me, comma, that we are dealing, comma, with a species of awesome intellect, colon.

HOLLY: Good. Perhaps they might be able to give you a hand with your punctuation.

[Monkey Face]

...When they dropped the casket at her funeral we all hit the Deck.

I told you a thousand times, Moosie, "Don't exaggerate!"

[moose07]

LOL. :D

[NoCmpromiz]

You missed a comma

Sorry.

My Linotype® ran out of comma matrices...

;-)

[NoCmpromiz]

High hopes eh?

Did you mean High Hopes or High Hopes?

[Tax-chick]

[null and void]

‘morning...

[Tax-chick]

Morning. How’s your floors?