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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Now that would depend on what sort of information he was peddling.
And where in the country he was peddling it.
If you want to sell ‘Sand to the Arabs’ ,do it in the south.
That had to hurt.
Good targeting by both parties ,however.
The Philipina who used to be my aide took me to breakfast, and was telling me about her daughter that just left to go back to the Philipines, after 2-1/2 months here. This is the same ex-PCA who called me last week, (two days before said daughter was to return home) asking me to go to lunch with them on a day I wasn’t feeling well.
My question (unasked, of course) was why did she wait until the last minute to ask me to meet her daughter, and not somewhere in the middle of the visit?
At any rate, she was not happy about me going to St. George, but the last time I saw her, she was pregnant with her youngest daughter, who just started First Grade. Hmmmmm...
She was telling me that the youngest (Sarah) was a little upset that the oldest (Cindy) was going back and that her dad bought her a hamster to assuage her feelings. I asked the PCA what Sarah named the hamster and she said, “She named it ‘Pluppy!’” Yes. We all need something pluppy to comfort us in times of sadness! But not while wearing “plip-plops.”
It’s nearly bedtime for Bonza. It’s also about five weeks away from vehicle registration date, and I’m hoping it won’t be as expensive as last year. I will have to wait a week or so and if I don’t get the card in the mail, telling me of the fees, I will have to email the DMV. There is no grace period in NV.
There goes my box and storage tub money...
Loki is wise in a sinister sort of way...
I don’t mind pale ale, but it has to be cold. I hope the barrel-shaped floor has handlebars on it... ;o] Good night, Moosie!
There’s a quick and easy way to get your papers moved for you for free.
Call the FBI and tell them you think your ex was involved in the drug trade and he left all his papers at your place. They’ll come and pack all your papers in boxes for you and hold them at their offices for a while. When they call you to say they found nothing give them the new address to return them to.
Yesterday when walking back from the bar I noticed that Gael Pub was pushing Dale’s Pale Ale.
No, I’m not making that up.
And, no, I did not drop in to take advantage of Gael’s Dale’s Pale Ale sale.
LOL! I’ll try to remember that when I’m ready to move! ;o])
He got a 9.5 from the judges for well placed timber drop but then the epic fail dismount
almost eliminated him completely.
!! STAHP !!! Did I need that? Yes. Yes. I think I did, thank you. :o])
(Yes, I did most certainly need that, thanks again...)
Night, Face.
Cold Ale......Wha? Eak eck an begorra.
It’s a desert thing, Moosie. You could learn to like it, if you lived here during a summer...
:)
I’ve always wanted to try it with ice cubes in it....but I’d get escorted to the county border.
‘Night.
Hope you have a good night. We’ll all be heading out in different directions here shortly.
And I’m heading in a totally different direction than all y’all!
Ta!
Molecules, atoms, electrons protons neutrons, gluons, and the very last; the so-ons, and so-on and so-on and so-on...
No.
No ice cubes. NO one on either side of the salty pond wants watered down brew. Buy some and take it home. Put one bottle in the fridge. Wait for a day when the glowbull warmthing is particularly oppressive. Try it then.
That way you will not suffer public ostracism.. ;-) If you find it drinkable, chill another bottle. Else - chalk it up to an interesting experiment and return to your normal routine.
(This assumes of course that said beverage is available in bottled format on your side of the pond. This will not work on a tankard fresh from the tap.. ;-)
Happy Birthday, Tiamat! I’ll wager there are no annoying llamas in your vicinity today.
Cuddly llamas who carry your things for you, perhaps.
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