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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ROFLOL !
And out of the Sun She came, Boom !
Sorry...I couldn’t help it! Life is too short not to take advantage of the obvious!
And now, I’m off to bed. I’m going to finish watching “Empire,” on PBS. They just finished India and Jerusalem, so I’m looking forward to what’s next. Very interesting!
See you on the morrow, Face.
“:-)
Father Ho was born in Jamaica to Chinese expat parents.
Ha, you win!
Last year we had a killing frost that finished the tomatoes in October but I think it was closer to Halloween. Of course with all that Glowbull Warmthing happening it seems that the first killing frost is happening earlier. Previous years it typically happened around Thanksgiving. The tomato crop was not all that spectacular this year, but there are still some that could ripen if they don’t get frosted. Once the frost gets them the vines turn into an ugly mass of stems and black leaves..
The raspberries are still a small patch that was started in 2014 from six plants. They didn’t seem to ‘take off’ after I planted them and by the time cold came around that year it looked like only three of them had lasted that long. Last spring however I noted that all six had survived and there were some offshoots. They didn’t produce much last year but the couple of handsfull were tasty. This year they have taken off and I am now ‘sharing’ them with assorted wildlife, especially the fruit that is growing on the canes that are bending near the ground. I tried tying them up once but they seem to want to bend low to the ground. I interrupted an opossum (you know, the only native North American marsupial) munching on the low hanging fruit when I was out attempting to use the feline summoning beacon to call home the wayward catbeasts. I must have seemed threatening as Pogo ran off and has not been back that I have observed.
The quantity is still not abundant but I now require a bowl to put them in when I pick them - there is more than can be carried in my hand. And the contents of that bowl doesn’t last long enough to make it into jam. It’s just too easy to walk past the counter with the bowl of red raspberries and have two or three or four or more jump into my mouth. I was told that these were supposedly ‘everbearing’ and should produce two ‘crops’ a year, on on the old wood and the next on the new wood. Or something like that - I haven’t had anything to do with raspberries (red ones anyway - there are black raspberries growing all over the farm here but just one ‘patch’ we can get to, the bambis and birds get the rest) since the days of my youth when my Grandmother had a raspberry patch. And blackberries. And blueberries..
I’m pretty sure I have a light duty tarp that I can drape over the raspberries if the weatherpeople insist in keeping that low temperature in the forecast for tomorrow night - which as of now they are (”Clear and cold; frost late”). Forecast lows for the rest of the month don’t dip below 35.
Good luck with your berries! Our blackberries didn’t do much this year. Too dry, I think.
Our forecast low is 49 tonight. I just got Jake in: he’d gone out about 7:30 to make a try at killing something. I missed scrubbing Santana yesterday, but I got him today. He’s obviously got some mental function going on, because he gets angry when he hears my voice!
Looked at that recipe. Looks good but I’d need to make it under cover of darkness to prevent certain females from noting some of the ingredients (e.g. Dijon mustard) so they don’t go ‘eeeew’.
Have no idea what they have against mustard that is not bright yellow except that they think that anything with hamburger should have only ketchup on it...
One cat still out. She didn’t appear when I went out with the summoning device..
I’ve got a few minutes before I head for the laundry room, so I figured I’d opine about the berries and such. I hope you are able to save them. It’s disappointing to know the weather prevaricators don’t really care about those who have even small patches of tasty growing things.
As to the recipe, I was surprised at the mustard but there isn’t enough in the thing to even taste, if one just enjoys the combination of flavors. I’m excited to make it, though I’ll have to invite Charlie to dinner on that day. ;o]
So now I’m gone. See all y’all in a little over an hour.
When you get the time, I’d like the recipe!
That kitty reminds me of a kid I knew from Fir Grove Elementary school named "Ears" Ericksson, except Ears' freckles weren't as symmetrical and he had a crewcut.
Good morning! It’s a Devon Rex, according to the source. I don’t like their coats very much, but they have interesting expressions!
What do you use to summon your catz?
The sound of a can-opener works at my house.
I will copy it an put it in the mail to you.
It is in the envelope, ready to go out to you. But I don’t know if we will have mail today, with it being Columbus Day and all. Without kids at home, I forget all this stuff.
Is the summoning device a can opener?
Sink is still plugged still has NASTY water in it from our disastrous attempt to run the dish washer (apparently the failed attempt to extract the plug only pushed it past where the dishwasher drains).
The new Roomba clone (an iLife V5S) works OK, but after it goes back to the dock and finished recharging, it beeps. The Chinglish manual has error codes and fixes for beep, beep-beep, and beep-beep-beep, but not for beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep...
It goes back to Amazon today.
That, and the refrigerator went Tango Uniform, the freezer is fine, but the refrigerator portion is room temp. Of course, we just finished stocking it. *sigh*
Oh, and we spotted a mouse.
Lovely weekend.
Can’t wait to get back to work.
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