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.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
16 sodium ions walked into a bar.
Followed by Batman.
LoL,
That took a moment. Good one!
Yes.
I was going to go to the library, but all my reserve books are still “In Transit.” Maybe they’ll be there by tomorrow morning.
It’s not that I don’t have anything to read, but it’s the Principle of the Thing
NYPL has its own app so you can reserve, download, and read all from the same UI.
In these parts when a reserved book is in transit it generally means one of the library “docents” has grabbed for lunchtime reading.
Whatever happened to the good old librarian title.
How about a new job title,
Governmental Post-Publishing Community Document Distribution Systems Executive Administrator
...or has that already been taken?
That’s nice. PLCMC (Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County) has a free e-book lending service, but I do not like reading on beebers. I like paper books.
I sat outside with the peeps until I just couldn’t sit any more, and when I came in, I finished with swapping out the summer stuff.
I still wonder if I have enough warm clothing. I’m always looking for thermal shirts and fleece pants. I hate being cold.
Samantha’s son came today, and I haven’t heard how she is doing, but her power is back on. I wonder if he paid it. The peeps have decided that her daughter hates her, since the bill hasn’t been paid in three months.
Her daughter acts like taking care of her mother is such an imposition. And since the death of Samantha’s boy friend, about four years ago, she hardly leaves her apartment. It’s pretty sad.
I’m supposed to have six books in. You’d think at least one wouldn’t interest the staff/volunteers!
I suspect the unfortunate situation Uptown may have something to do with the delay. Turkeys.
That’s a very sad situation. Good thing the son arrived and got her some electricity!
Yes, but paper books are tough to handle on a smashed subway.
-Bill
No tougher than an electronic device, surely.
People all smashed together, that is. Not a subway that’s smashed.
Much tougher. You’re standing, holding onto a pole with one hand, and you need to turn a page. Do you just flick your thumb or do you let go, grab the corner and turn the page, and hope there’s not a jolt of the subway that causes you to rip the page out of the book.
“I suspect the unfortunate situation Uptown may have something to do with the delay”
You mean someone has liberated them to read them......?
That’s the part that confused me. Now that you’ve cleared it up, I see your point.
I can’t read in moving vehicles without throwing up. If I commuted by subway, I’d have to use e-audio or practice meditation.
No, I mean a couple of branches closed early yesterday and may not have opened today, restricting the flow of books intra-system.
The idea that the late career criminal Mr. Scott had a BOOK was always pathetically laughable.
Manuscript Archivist and Dispatcher.
:)
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I don’t know if he did it or the daughter did, but I’m thinking she will be moving out soon, and hopefully, into a place where she will be taken care of. Her osteoporosis is very advanced and she is probably a foot shorter than she should be.
I don’t know how long the son will stay, but I hope he stays long enough to help her and make the daughter account for her mistreatment of the mother. There is a law against elder abuse here.
Gorpolese?
Or just cleaning your keyboard?
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