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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Stupidity, like everything else, is made of so-ons...
Fall épico
It lacks Zing.
Yes, ma’am. Thank you. ;o]
“I wonder how you say Epic Fail in Spanish.” Good question.
Épica falla servicio de césped Latino
The door and the security door are both open, allowing some of the cool air to come in. The Galileo says it’s 84 in here (above the light) and there are two orbs at the top, while the rest are at the bottom. Yes...sweater time. And almost time to swap out the clothes for warmer ones.
It’s 78 in here. I was trying to read the newspaper while eating lunch, but Jake sat on it.
Jake sat on your lunch?? :o0 How inconvenient!
Smith’s is having a case lot sale and there is a case of chili for $12 (12 ct.) and a case of frozen burritos (32 ct.) for $8. Why they can’t have these sales when I have money is beyond me, but I sure would liked to have been able to get one of each. *dang*
Jake sat on your lunch?? :o0 How inconvenient!
I had the same thought.
When you start to think like me it's bad news.
Actually, I’ll take it as a compliment!
:o])
It is a feature of the CAT unit..
Should you have the paper spread open, if the CAT unit has the advanced feature set installed the unit will ascertain exactly which article you were reading and flomph down in that exact spot, allowing you to read everything except what you wanted to..
All CAT units have this feature installed, but only the deluxe models are equipped with the advanced feature..
And speaking of CAT units, earlier this AM all of our outdoor CAT units were safely inside except for the Smudge. The weather was pleasant with no rain and she tends to avoid coming indoors for as long as possible under those conditions. About 0230 I hear a me-eu out my nominalnorth facing window so I grabbed my flashlight (the floodlight above the back door does not illuminate that spot since it is around a corner) to venture forth in investigative mode. When I opened the back door I was greeted with a terrible screeching sound from the direction of the corn field which I could not identify immediately. The beam of the flashlight revealed a pair of eyes about half way up a tree on the nominalwest edge of the cornfield. And then another eye-set even higher up in the same tree. The eyes were located in the general direction of the mayhem, er, screeching but were too far away to have been the source of the me-eu.
When I illuminated the dark spot around the corner (which would be by my nominalnorth facing window) I saw the Smudge ignoring me as she munched on a rodentlooking morsel. With the Smudge's safety now verified I turned attention back to the ongoing mayhem in the cornfield. Eventually the data banks associated the noise being heard with the memory of the noise made by raccoons when they are disputing whatever it is that raccoons dispute at zero dark thirty and determined that they were not a threat, especially as they were halfway up a tree at least two hundred yards (maybe it was meters..) away so I waited for the Smudge to finish her rodent snack and then open the door for her to come inside.
Where she promptly sat by a plate of yummyyummy cat food and started consuming same..
Hit anything hard enough you will always end up with the So-on. That speck of smashed sh1t that you haven’t yet concocted a name for.
So the mass of every object in the universe is caused by the rotational speed of the elusive So-on particle.
:)
Yes, and whenever the CAT Units are called upon to flomph on a particular item of perusal, they are extremely diligent and precise. As if the articles were mapped out. <3
It’s woise dan I tought!
Stupidity is an observed effect of the incorrect interaction of So-ons.
The is no actual Stupidity particle.
However if the diving standard I saw tonight on the York Ring road is anything to go by , that second statement is up for revision.
I have it from reliable sources that one of the raccoons was a Trumpkin and the other was a Hilladroid.
This explains the intensity of the disagreement.
Whilst I was looking for a USB-male to HDMI-male connector cable, the computer stopped. Every cable I found was less than 12” long and included a something-cable with a female receptacle which I don’t need for this particular connection, and about 6’ of cable to the female end. I need the male-to-male at least 3’ long.
But could I find one on eBay? Nooooooo... But the prices on the ones I couldn’t use were perfect: $2.50 - to $6.50, free S&H. I’m thinking I’ll never be able to watch another movie in my life from the comfort of my sofa.
And I won’t try to watch one on THIS piece of retarded electronics... The darn thing will probably do a ‘splody dance when I least expect it.
Two woids.
Chromecast.
:)
Perfect.
Um. What is it? And what does it do?
You put it into the USB port of your TV and then you can push anything you’re looking at on google chrome to the TV set, which includes yew-toobs and hulus and all sorts of fine stuff-like.
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