New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit

space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

[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.

[moose07]

As Google is going to get hold of this:

Yes ,Hillary knows all about the Disgusting trade in Baby Oil. !

LoL.

[moose07]

Darks has been around.
He was “undisputed Master of the universe “ or something , the other day.

[ArGee]

If I weren’t afraid some Trumpkin would run with it I’d try to start the rumor that CMP had video evidence of Planned Parenthood’s illegal trafficking in baby oil but it got crushed by a George H. W. Bush appointe on the 5th Circuit, or some such.

I could probably raise a lot of money with that.

[moose07]

Now Google has that too.
WaPo editorial on its way......

[Tax-chick]

People might think this line of discussion is a bit weird, you know.

[moose07]

[Tax-chick]

Scenic. The site is ... ?

[moose07]

If they’ve got this far through the thread .....
:)

[moose07]

Oxford City Centre.
The Stomping ground of Inspecter Morse.

[moose07]

Most of those buildings are Oxford Collages , making up the University.

[moose07]

Christchurch Collage ,Oxford.

[JoeProBono]

You remembered;-{)

[moose07]

LoL...
Oh, yeah.
:)

[NicknamedBob]

Another Royal Canadian Air Force Spitfire pilot; John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

[Tax-chick]

Looks like Hogwarts, only southern.

[NicknamedBob]

"Most of those buildings are Oxford Collages , making up the University."

I know it's a lot of pictures, but "Collages"?

The things you do to "English spellings", Moosie, do put the strange into different.

I still love your travelogues.

[Silentgypsy]

Wow!

[Silentgypsy]

i thought it was autocowreck. other day, somebody meant to say celerity and it substituted celery. hilarious. g’night!

[NicknamedBob]

Ah, yes, celerity. It's the "c" in E=mc².

Einstein used "celeritas", but he knew Latin better than I do.

[NoCmpromiz]

Einstein used "celeritas"

It was "celeriac", and Albert mentioned it because he was working on a recipe at the time that featured the knobby thing.. ;-)