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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I will be thinking good thoughts in your direction. Half of your family will become cardiologists during the next three days.
Serious as it is, I have the feeling that you have caught it early.
Guess I better resume taking my cayenne pills.
Best guess is a panic attack. He said he was feeling the symptom while hooked up to the heart monitor, but the monitor didn’t show anything, so it’s not his heart. Maybe spasms in a chest muscle. I had something like that in my abs after my colonoscopy: felt just like a baby kicking!
I suppose we all need an occasional reminder that there are more important things in life than killing ourselves on the job.
Yep. I hope he will use his doctor-ordered “mental health day” off work to do something relaxing away from home. (Otherwise he’ll drive me bonkers!)
Panic attacks can show up with multiple symptoms, and they don’t usually “just happen.” They are the result of stresses over time, but once they start, if not diagnosed as a panic attack, they will show up frequently, with just “minor” stress as a trigger.
Unless one learns the symptoms and a) takes medication for a sense of tranquility, or 2) learns to use biofeedback to control them.
At any rate, I hope DP is doing better today and that he is none the worse for the experience.
I have a meeting at 0530 with Zeke, who is also the guy who confided in me yesterday. I have no idea what he wants, but I will find out. He has an ex-girlfriend who lives on property, and she is not only into everyone’s business, but she stalks him. If he is at the ramada with us, she suddenly has to do her walking exercises and “hip-swinging” exercises, all around the area so she can see and be seen.
Yesterday, when he left the ramada (he was there a total of four minutes) she followed him away, and I yelled, “Zeke! Your puppy is out!”
OOooohhh! Lookee! A whole herd of floof! It’s a good thing to have on a Tuesday! And all just as pretty as sprinkled donuts, too!
Yes, they’re adorable!
Off to WW with my usual crew of attendant. Be careful out with Zeke!
That’s for the pressure, not for the air.
I had North America Invasion Day off.
I went hiking with my daughter and then spent some time waiting for everything to stop hurting.
I’m catching up.
Does your husband still need prayer or is all good?
Excellent, nothing quite like a good walk in the outback to reinvigorate the spirit. :)
NAID....funny how 1485 or 1532 never get mentioned.
My daughter says the grass snakes don’t like my strolls. Apparently I stepped on one that was sunning itself on a rock.
If I did it wasn’t one of nature’s finest. I definitely don’t sneak through the woods.
We also may have seen a bobcat. I claim it was too big and colored wrong to be a housecat. My daughter is convinced it was a tabby. I’m sure her eyes are better than mine.
Another possibility is an esophageal spasm.
A little bit of acid reflux and the esophagus slams shut and cramps. The symptoms can PERFECTLY mimic all five of those of a heart attack.
Ironically, nitroglycerine relaxes the muscles and relieves the pain.
Obese middle-aged man shows up in the ER with all the symptoms of a heart attack, treatment with nitro relieves the symptoms, the doctors were convinced I had a bad ticker!
I spent 4 days in a hospital, EKG, stress test, non-stress test, thallium scan, and finally an angiogram, which showed definitively that my arteries were as clear as those of a 20 year old.
Reluctantly, they let me go...
You just called her a dog.
Well played!
Sink unplugged.
The refrigerator repair ninja showed up and left a note on the door, apologizing for being late, and noting that no one was home. Ratboy was home and listening attentively for him.
Got a no-kill trap, but it didn’t come with bait like the package implied, and we just ran out of peanut butter. *sigh*
The stuned beeber is packed and labeled, but just missed the UPS guy.
Did I mention that Ratboy got zapped several times while changing a plug, despite turning off the breaker and verifying the outlet was off with a lamp. Heck of a weekend.
He’s fine now, but you may pray anyway if you’re so inclined! He just came back from a walk around the neighborhood, which he mostly spent talking with a Baptist minister who lives up the street.
At least your sink is unplugged. Hope Ratboy is unhurt!
Yes, she is that, as she follows him everywhere, and he doesn’t even have to call to her! She is a piece of work, not to mention the laughing stock of the entire complex.
Even the new residents are onto her. I guess her neediness is very obvious. If she weren’t so evil, she might be pathetic, but she will stand up in a meeting, which is not about her OR him, and tell the entire room what an awful person he is, while pointing her finger.
Telling her to sit down and shut up has been tried several times, to no avail. So puppy, she is!
Zeke is trying to get a 501c3 formed and functioning, and we need a name for it.
Bearing in mind we are all ol’ fogies, but also trying to help us keep our digity, does anyone have a name for such an organization?
Toss it into the ring in the next 24 hours, if you would, please.
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