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New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit
space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

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 ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
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To: NoCmpromiz

LOL,
Lactose intolerance can be a real stinker.


441 posted on 07/17/2016 9:38:35 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

Hi! My name’s NoNoBadDog. What’s yours?


442 posted on 07/18/2016 2:05:06 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: Monkey Face; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; Anoreth; ...

443 posted on 07/18/2016 2:36:22 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The real world does not unfold according to our neat ideological models." ~Kevin Williamson)
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To: Tax-chick; moose07; NoCmpromiz; NicknamedBob; ThomasThomas

That’s a slicky place to play. How can you get any traction?

Good morning/afternoon, ganag!

It’s MONDAY! The laundry has been sorted, the fresh towels are in the bathroom and fresh sheets are sitting on the bed, awaiting deployment, and my Monday jobs are just starting. Ungh.

I may have to have a breathing treatment before I go to the laundry room. I really hope the day is better than it appears to be starting out.

With any luck, I’ll get the truck washed today. I have enough left over from the stash for the servicing to do that, and it needs it. Dusty, dusty, dusty!

And I’ll stop at Wally’s on the way and get a refill on ink so all the missives can be mailed. I’m anxious to see what will happen with the postal clerk...


444 posted on 07/18/2016 3:35:49 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Monkey Face

I’m guessing that the black cat went in the bathtub to be cool, and the stripy kitten jumped in so he could play. I have occasionally found one of our cats in the bathtub; I suspect nefarious motives.

Good luck with all your washing!


445 posted on 07/18/2016 4:19:22 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The real world does not unfold according to our neat ideological models." ~Kevin Williamson)
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To: Tax-chick

The laundry is two loads. When I was washing at Busdaddy’s, I could do four or five loads, but I can’t use more than two machines here, so I have to wash every week, no matter how I feel. I sure hope the places in St. George have washers and dryers in the apartments. Or at least washers, with clotheslines out back.

And windows. Lots of windows!


446 posted on 07/18/2016 4:32:01 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Tax-chick

The kittehs looks like just a few months apart in age, so maybe siblings?

It’s a cute pic, anyway.


447 posted on 07/18/2016 4:33:04 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Monkey Face

The striped one is all twisty.

Tom the Son was sighted yesterday, when they took the younger boys to camp. Sally said he looks like he hasn’t washed since he left. I figure she’s exaggerating a little, but *shudder*.


448 posted on 07/18/2016 4:45:16 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The real world does not unfold according to our neat ideological models." ~Kevin Williamson)
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To: Tax-chick

Oh, yes. I’m familiar with that “unwashed” look and I echo your *shudder*!

I need to find a bit of chocolate to take to the laundry room so I don’t use my laundry money on a candy bar. I hate when I do that.


449 posted on 07/18/2016 4:49:49 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Monkey Face

Good luck!

I need to get going on something useful here - we don’t leave for Kathleen’s swimming lesson until 9:20.


450 posted on 07/18/2016 4:50:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The real world does not unfold according to our neat ideological models." ~Kevin Williamson)
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To: Tax-chick

Yep. I need to get a bottle of water and a piece of chocolate and head for the washers.


451 posted on 07/18/2016 4:51:58 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Monkey Face; All

Good Monday!

That should cover all the time zones.

I don’t know how you can call it a bad day when you already have the laundry done and folded.


452 posted on 07/18/2016 5:47:17 AM PDT by ArGee (JFK put a man on the moon. Obama put a man in the girl's bathroom.)
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To: ArGee

It’s Monday and the hard part is almost over with. The bed is still waiting for clean sheets, but I just had another morphine, so the bed will be done, soon.


453 posted on 07/18/2016 6:41:13 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Monkey Face
Yep. I need to get a bottle of water and a piece of chocolate and head for the washers.

Bottle of water

piece of chocolate

washing machine

What could go wrong?

;>)

The warranty on my washer doesn't cover that formula, only machine type soap or detergents.

454 posted on 07/18/2016 6:42:42 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; moose07; ArGee
Gonna be this kind of day...


455 posted on 07/18/2016 6:46:15 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Yep


456 posted on 07/18/2016 6:48:41 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: null and void; Monkey Face; Tax-chick; moose07; ArGee; Gefn
Dog dayvafternoon ahead...


457 posted on 07/18/2016 6:53:54 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Tax-chick
Swim classes will be attenuated today....due to kitty swim hour.
458 posted on 07/18/2016 7:01:48 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

2 white tigers playing at seashore https://imgur.com/gallery/9KNkkwc


459 posted on 07/18/2016 7:05:33 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Hahaha! “What could go wrong?” he sez. When I went to put the sheets in the dryer, the edge of the dryer door frame caught my forearm and with fragile skin from 40 years of being on baby aspirin, it ripped open. GAAAAAH!

But the sheets and towels have been put away, and I just have the top sheet to put on the bed, and the days’ work is done.

Yay me.


460 posted on 07/18/2016 7:23:14 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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