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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Once again, I miss all the good stuff. I had to go bed way early yesterday, due to chills and fever. This is getting old.
I saw the mosquito again this morning, but I don’t know where it went. I will hunt him. And I will find him. And I will kill him.
If you were a dragon, a few crickets would put your whole day into the plus column.
I was hunting a mosquito at the Stewardship Commission meeting last night. It was white with black stripes.
If he bit you, he’s a she and she wanted the blood to let her eggs form.
Killing her ain’t gonna help much.
I just want this little wuzzer out of my house.
I can’t even go to the store because I feel so icky. There are things I need to get. The first morning I feel relatively good, I will head to Wally’s and hope I have enough money for everything I’m out of. *grrrr*
I know he’s a she. But if I kill her before she lays her eggs, I’m good.
My body reacts horribly to mosquito bites, and I have an Epi-Pen for that reason. That and bee stings, of course....
They tried the cricket thing on a subway recently.
It didn’t look like it cheered anyone up.
Maybe we should release some dragons?
I’m thinking mosquitos are God’s way of reminding us that we don’t have to be big to have a big impact.
There is that, of course.
The late Igor suffered from malaria as a child, living in Oklahoma. He was never able to donate blood except for himself, in the event of major surgery.
It wasn’t until his family moved to Wyoming, to the coal mines that he was able to grow and put on weight, because in Oklahoma, he was sick every summer.
In the navy, he was always stationed aboard ships that never went to malaria-ridden countries. It was only as a government contractor in Viet Nam that he was exposed to the jungles.
I think dragons in the subway is a great idea, although they’d have to be larger than mine.
Tomorrow is payday here.
I’ve finished typing the Stewardship notes and I have time to wash a dragon before leaving for the next thing.
Galileo says it’s 74 degrees in here. The weather prevaricators say its 63 outside, clear with no wind and 16%.
I will need to get ink and water the next time I go to Walmart, and in another week, I will have to order the steroid for my lungs.
Next Friday I will have to call in for my pain pill prescription, but since I didn’t have money for gas this payday (registration and attorney) I won’t be making too many trips around town, trying to save the gas for the trip into Vegas.
At least in St George, I won’t have to drive so far to get the prescription. That’s one good thing about the move. Amid all the others, of course... ;o]
Dragons in the subway? Big ones would certainly cut down on crime!
T-c, have you always had to bathe the dragons? Or is this something new because of their skin irritations? And could Jack have brought the problem to the other dragons?
We’ve always given them baths occasionally. For one thing, it’s not unusual for them to walk through their poop. Washing them helps prevent growth of bacteria and mold.
However, Santana has accumulated old skin because he moves around so little, and soaking and brushing helps to remove it. I only recently realized how much a scrub accomplishes! I can see a patch on his tail that will come off in another few days, and then I’ll have to treat a growth of mold under it.
Baby is shedding right now, too, but she’s agile and will rub all the skin off on her rocks and tree.
Just on the way home from Oxford.
This old thatched cottage pub just sort of happened.
That’s dinner taken care of. :)
That doesn't ever happen to me! I just go to Walmart, sigh.
On the other hand, I haven't been murdered in a strange and unexpected way by someone with opaque and perverse motives, so maybe life here in Boring isn't so bad ...
So, he doesn’t get yelled at for leaving the door open or tracking dirt across the floor. :)
He’s just living up to his roots.
I still remember an old Wizard of Id cartoon that cracked me up.
The rock tells the floser, “I envy you, you have roots.”
Flower: I DO?????!!!!
Rock: Sure!
Flower: Thanks goodness. I thought my toenails had gone berserk.
I learn something new every day when I pay attention to this thread!
It’s always an education.
Yesterday, I started to read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” by William Shirer. I had read it when I was in Germany, but can remember almost nothing about it. Since then, I’ve read a lot of books about the Third Reich, and I’m hoping this will fill in the gaps. The country has always fascinated me, but it seems to be a totally alien place, now, with the “refugees” taking over. Sad stuff, that.
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