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New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit
space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

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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TOPICS: Astronomy
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To: null and void; Tax-chick

I’m thinking it’s an investment, as in “Bill, the Galactic Hero”. A worthy read, even if your name is not Bill.


2,781 posted on 09/02/2016 4:53:50 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: null and void

I see your point.


2,782 posted on 09/03/2016 2:23:27 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

Excess.


2,783 posted on 09/03/2016 2:23:44 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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2,784 posted on 09/03/2016 2:25:25 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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To: Tax-chick
Fangs uh, Thanks, I thought later that it might have sounded harsh...
2,785 posted on 09/03/2016 5:47:25 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: null and void

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


2,786 posted on 09/03/2016 5:55:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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To: null and void

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.


2,787 posted on 09/03/2016 5:57:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

You missed a comma after the last “of.”


2,788 posted on 09/03/2016 5:58:16 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind. If you find it, don't bother to return it. It wasn't working properly)
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To: Tax-chick

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.

But I don’t have to go into Vegas until the 15th, so I’m not going to worry about it, just yet. For what little driving I have to do between now and then, I’m good.


2,789 posted on 09/03/2016 6:03:22 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind. If you find it, don't bother to return it. It wasn't working properly)
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To: Tax-chick

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.


2,790 posted on 09/03/2016 6:10:06 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: Tax-chick

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


2,791 posted on 09/03/2016 6:11:10 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: Monkey Face

“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.


2,792 posted on 09/03/2016 6:13:10 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) The only thing you should do on the Left is Drive.)
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To: Monkey Face; NoCmpromiz
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.

2,793 posted on 09/03/2016 6:17:14 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: moose07
...When they dropped the casket at her funeral we all hit the Deck.

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

2,794 posted on 09/03/2016 6:25:31 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I've finally lost my mind. If you find it, don't bother to return it. It wasn't working properly)
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To: Monkey Face

LOL. :D


2,795 posted on 09/03/2016 6:31:48 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) The only thing you should do on the Left is Drive.)
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To: Monkey Face
You missed a comma

Sorry.

My Linotype® ran out of comma matrices...

;-)

2,796 posted on 09/03/2016 10:33:53 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: null and void; Tax-chick
High hopes eh?

Did you mean High Hopes or High Hopes?

2,797 posted on 09/03/2016 10:42:41 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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2,798 posted on 09/04/2016 2:03:39 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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To: Tax-chick

‘morning...


2,799 posted on 09/04/2016 2:09:50 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: null and void

Morning. How’s your floors?


2,800 posted on 09/04/2016 2:12:53 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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