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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Sorry, I just don't have the dough.
It’s OK, ArGee. We’re pretty lenient around here, and your behavior has to be really obnoxious before we blow the whistle for the mods.
*hug*
There’s a rumor around town that the NYT is making contingency plans in case HRC dies of pneumonia.
They’re soliciting op-eds that claim it’s sexist if you believe that disqualifies her from being POTUS.
I was going to submit one claiming that, according to the Constitution, the President’s job isn’t that big anyway. But I don’t want to have to explain to the people at the NYT what the Constitution is.
I needed the extra kittehs. I’m done with the laundry and unlocked the place on my way out, so I don’t have to go back. Now, I’m going to have a breathing treatment and see if my day looks any better after that.
Right now, I don’t want to be a mom and do mom-like things.
I went to Florida to place my father’s ashes, but we got to stay overnight.
Hope you make it through the day!
You would think that, if the president-elect were dead, we wouldn’t have to put up with speeches and stuff.
Since you have no children at home, that should be workable. I need to go to Walmart. Vlad has to come because he needs new shoes.
“Bill Clinton celebrated the 911 event yesterday with Jeffery Epstein on Pedophile Island. The name of the party was 9 & 11.”
Try asking for a pottle on milk next time you’re in the store...
No, I still have to change the sheets on the bed. The dirty ones are in the linen closet, clean and smelling good, but the bed awaits being made.
And I need to call the thrift store for a pick up, and make a few other phone calls, and I just want to curl up with my blankie.
And my stomach is killing me, so I need to plan on a day of cayenne pepper water. Ungh. I want some tea.
To be fair - I arrived around midnight Friday and got on a plane at 6am Sunday.
Otherwise I would not even be eaking Spenglish today.
I think we’d have a significant reduction in Executive Overreach if we inagurated a dead President.
Yes, and I’m sure it would cut his travel expenses too.
Just imagine the pure joy of having to learn those without any form of rudimentary eduction behind you. Only the Russians would find this amusing.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, LSD and , L,S,D must have all originated from the same root chemical. :)
Didn’t the Russians have Brezhnev on a compressed air feed for a while?
Socialists do like to keep their leaders on air...
I think Brezhnev was undead.
:)
On line translation....love it.
LOL! But who knows what you really said ...
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