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 ...
I always liked the “Clams got legs,” panel.
I used to have it, but it disappeared at work, one day. Along with a Calvin and Hobbes book. *grrrr*
Germany has always fascinated me, also.
But not the Adolf years so much.
I consider it to be the mother land of the Northern European people.
She will survive,I’m sure.Vercingetorix the second is out there somewhere.
I know he was a Gaul, but it is such a cool name. :)
I have been to Walmart. I’m reading a book about an American pilot who was one of the “Great Escape” participants (aggregated into Steve McQueen’s character) and a biography of Mary Martin, the Broadway actress. Coincidentally, both Ms. Martin and the pilot, whose name I don’t recall offhand, were from small towns in Texas.
Gauls, Goths, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes ... all Germanic speakers.
The entire history of Germany is interesting to me and I have several books covering probably 3000 years of how it came to be the country it is.
I like the war years because I was a military wife, mother, widow, grandma, and G-g-ma...as I tell my kids when they back-talk me, “Time in grade, dear, time in grade.” Yes. Like that.
The fever is worse, so I’m out of here. I hate this. It seems to never end. About six hours is all I can handle before the fever and chills are back. *sigh*
Clams panel
Two clams at a costume party. First clam in mask: Guess who?
Second clam: Wanda
First clam walks away mad
Second clam to us: Wanda has knobby knees.
Hope you have a good night and feel better tomorrow!
Are they any good? All I've ever used are Bose and Advent. I don't trust these modern brands.
Bob Inghram was an American Spitfire pilot during World War II. He was shot down on his fifth mission, was captured, and imprisoned at Stalag Luft III, which was made famous in the movie “The Great Escape.” San Antonio-area veteran
http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/A-Tunnel-King-who-didn-t-lose-his-cool-6662035.php
*mild stunning *
? You’ve found a Goth that actually speaks?
:D
San Antonio is a nice little town if you stay on the Riverwalk.
Beyond that the traffic is a nightmare.
William Ash is the subject of the book I have; I just went upstairs to check it. Like quite a few other Americans, he went to Canada to get into the war by joining their Air Force.
I lived there from 1984 to 1995. The ‘burbs are almost unrecognizable now.
LOL!
With all those guttural sounds, it can hard to tell whether they’re speaking, coughing, or grunting.
You can hear the insanity in The Tell Tale Heart. And you can almost feel your life ebbing away brick by brick in The Cask of Amontillado. Enjoy.
Have just discovered a critical shortage of Cow Juice in the fridge.
Looks like tea without milk in the morning.
That’s what I said about Hillary.
YOU GUYS SQUEEZE COWS FOR THE JUICE?
And I thought we were bad the way we raise turkeys for food.
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