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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I told my niece that I would put my keys next to something i didn’t want to forget.
I wanted to remember to take with me.
She made me lunch.
Something I wanted not to forget.
The lunch needed to be in the frige. So...
But it was just a dream,
I think. My dreams have a grammar checker. I can repeat sentances changing words.
I enjoyed sentence diagraming.
It made sentence structure a little more visual for me.
The crickets we have here obey no rules...
I enjoy sentence diagramming, too. However, I usually don’t dream about it.
The Metric system hadn't been invented yet.
Had to get things done somehow whilst we where all waiting.
L,S,D was another classic.
Morning, TC.
Feeling on the Slow side today.
Loads to do, can’t be bothered.
It’s Monday here, too.
As opposed to the metric system, the benighted child of the French Revolution, which first steps were standardization of dry measure.
One tumbril=5 paniers (basket)=5 tetes or heads. Deemed necessary for standardization of the output and efficacy of Dr. Guillotine's invention to resolve inflated claims by various committees of public safety. Origin of the phrase "head count".
The French decimal system adapted by the revolutionary peasantry paradoxically based on finger counting, assumed the OEM specification of five fingers per hand times two hand. Said peasantry oft times lacked the full complement of hands or fingers due to accidents ( see "here, hold my vin and watch this") as opposed to the aristocracy which in the main retained full possession of both.
For a truly stupifying standardized weights and measures system I refer you to the old Russian system.
Wow! A whole pile of squee, this morning! I need that for sure, since it’s wash day and I’m one solid ache.
Ungh... Monday
The nephew, Daniel Lasko, made an awesome tackle in the first quarter yesterday, but I never saw him again in the entire game. Maybe I just wasn’t paying attention. Anyway, he done good!
I’m certainly glad those are obsolete weights and measures because I would certainly hate to see a Russian kid try and remember all that. *whew*
It makes my eyes burn.
That's awesome!! Congrats Bill the Son!
zlotniks, funts et al, the verst system ever.
;>)
Thank you. For his next trick, he’s going to get a full-time job and an apartment.
Congrats to your nephew! I’m glad you liked the kittens. I decided we needed extra today.
Shannon just spewed.
It’s nice to be needed.
I had the boys clean it up.
Morning, everyone.
Mom’s ashes are safely in the ground and I’m exhausted. Not what most people make a day-trip to Florida for.
I’d warn you that I might be a little incoherent today but I don’t know how you would tell the difference.
Even for a non-Beatles fan like myself I wouldn't imagine Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is considered one of their greats.
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