All the bases have been covered it looks like. In case anyone wondered, Elvis IS in the store, safely positioned in the back to prevent snatch and run worshippers.
The lighted open sign flashes.
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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Somehow we’re letting all the best post numbers go by without noticing.
Congratulations on post 3456.
Good morning! It’s very good to see you! :o])
*HUG*
The Nevada Northern Railway is a lot like this one:
But it’s not nearly as picturesque. Still, it’s close by. However, when I move to St George, Ely will be closer to me than it is now.
They're all just ones and zeroes anyway. Except for "Twosdays", of course.
Either that, or how to eat branz.
I’m here, though I slept in till 0445 again. Egads! I’m getting lazy!
And for my next trick, I’ll go fold the laundry that dried overnight!
Hi. I slept until nearly 0600.
All sorts of people are saying I said I would take them to Walmart, and I don’t remember any of this.
*tagline*
I think they are messing with your mind. My kids used to try that with me, too... Long ago and far away. ;o]
I told them that, regardless of what I might have said earlier, they could stay home now.
All the bases have been covered it looks like. In case anyone wondered, Elvis IS in the store, safely positioned in the back to prevent snatch and run worshippers.
The lighted open sign flashes.
If you think that I an stood in a strange place, you are right, it was a little on the cool side.
Did you have that being watched feeling?
The gold-painted Buddha is a nice touch: wouldn’t want to lose a customer just because he’s a totally different religion.
I haven’t been in a Botanica since we moved from San Antonio in 1995.
You could have had a bridge to stand on.
Is this the New Forest?
In the New Forest , just east of Brockenhurst.
There was no available bridge. They are two heavy to carry in the bag, so....
:)
You just need to invent a light, portable one!
I was talking on Sunday with an acquaintance from England. He said he just returned from a Cub Scout campout with his son, and he was amazed at how many toxic plants and animals there are in the U.S. He said he’s lived here 14 years, but he’s only in his second year with the Scouts.
His daughter and son will be in my bilingual supplementary Sacrament class this year.
LoL,
Ask the RAF if they would kindly Chinook it into position.
That would disturb the ecology. What you really need is NicknamedBob!
We have toxic plants capable of killing in seconds, lucky most Brits haven’t a clue what they are looking at and so don’t touch.
Some are seasonally dangerous, others always on standby.
The animals are mostly benign, except during the rutt.
But he is right, we do have it easy here with regards to Wildlife in general .
The poisonous snake just can’t be bothered with the hassle.
Bilingual.....English and American English. .? :D
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