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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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Living Dead.
Apparently......according to another online translation sevice. LOL !
Well, it isn’t “Reset”. :)
Heh.
Reminds me of a famous anecdote about translation. One person translated, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak,” from English into Russian. A second person translated the Russian version back into English and got, “The vodka is excellent, but the meat is rotten.”
"The basic unit is the Russian cubit, called the arshin, which has been in use since the 16th century. It was standardized by Peter the Great in the 18th century to measure exactly twenty-eight English inches (71.12 cm). Thus, 80 vershoks = 20 piads = 5 arshins = 140 English inches (355.60 cm)."
"A piad (пядь, “palm”, “five”) or chetvert (че́тверть, “quarter”) is a hand span, the distance between ends of the spread thumb and index finger."
The sights on the Mosin-Nagant rifles were indexed in arshins. A good Strelnieks, rifleman, could get his five shots within a piad at 100 arshins. Or maybe that's vershoks not piads.... Ahhh... arshit. :-<( Surely the measures played a part in the loss of many in WWI.
And Secret Service. What would the Secret Service have to do.
It's sounding more and more like we should arrange a dead write in. Maybe all those dead democrat voters would vote for him or her.
He must have quit posting before I got here. I don't remember him at all.
I wonder how many of our hillbillies are of Russian ancestry. It’s beginning to sound like “He could spit a fly off a hog’s back at 100 paces” has Russian roots.
Speaking of which, if those guys ever joined our army, I’m thinking wars would cease. Men who will take bullets won’t chance a stream of tobacky juice in the eye.
Timothy Leary thought so.
In paisley...
We could elect Mel Carnahan: he’s already been elected to the Senate while dead.
I was thinking something a little more esoteric - like Bill the Cat. He’s been nominated while dead before.
No wonder they never risked a manned Moon mission.
No computer at the time could handle the Russian version of Trig.
Just how many probes did they send up that missed the moon by, say, under a parsec.
“The vodka is excellent, but the meat is rotten.”
Very descriptive.
Sounds better than the English version. :)
Cub Scouts starts up again tonight. I’ve spent most of the afternoon organizing miscellaneous scouty stuff. We have to leave by 5:00 so we can take Elen to school first.
Beware Akela.
Our neckerchief was white with a red outside.
Try keeping that respectable in a dusty old scout hut when you’re only eight....LoL.
I tried to get a neckerchief that would slowly contract around a scout’s neck if he misbehaved.
Apparently the national organization thought it was a bad idea.
(Uk) Cub Scout uniform was designed by the sith anyway.
Surprised that your adaptation wasn’t already included.
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I’m sure the parents of my Wolf Cubs den would love the self-correcting neckerchief.
We made swimming noodles into circles, using brute force and duct tape, and then we went outside and played games with them, such as ring toss and obstacle course. Then we went back inside and had some ice water and a small snack.
DP found a tiny snake, which the boys admired and frightened half to death. I took it away and put it in the leaves under a shrubbery.
Last trash day, or maybe it was two trash days ago because the grandkids were still here, I discovered a garter snake secreted under the recycling container.
I encouraged it to move off in snakelike fashion for some cover before they laid eyes on him. Or her. The garter snake took my advice.
It was probably hiding under the container because of them in the first place..
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