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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Well, if you’re using IE then yes, dump that immediately. I don’t think MS is supporting anything other than Edge.
I have to say there’s no way the Dell hardware is giving you as much trouble as you say you’re having. The worst hardware in the world won’t do what happens to you. It’s software somewhere. Either IE (which is really a virus masquerading as a Web Browser) or extensions or something is causing the problem.
I’m working from home today as I have to speak at a PMI Symposium later on.
A King size hangover tomorrow morning ,then. :)
My grandfather and my mother were both alcoholics, so I don’t drink except occasionally a glass of wine for a toast. I’m also not sure drinking to relax is what God intended for us, although I don’t go so far as to say Christians shouldn’t drink. After all, Jesus did turn water into wine and He wouldn’t tempt people to sin.
All that to say my head won’t ache. My feet might.
I just downloaded it and will spend a couple of hours trying to navigate with it, and see how I do. My brain is functioning fairly well today (except for speling) so I thought I might as well try it.
I mean, what can I lose?
IE isn’t on this thing. Edge is. I want to delete it and just use Firefox. I guess I’d better get into Settings, because it wants to default to Edge. GAH!
I’ve looked at your problem from a logical perspective.
The PC is useful for operating the Printer/scanner, etc, storage and retrieval /archiving jobs.
But it is a pain in the Posterior with regards to Windows meddling.
So , a proposal to a solution.
Three years ago Both of My laptops where unplugged from the Net, restored to factory settings with all software reinstalled. They still work like new due to no updates.
All of my Web browsing is now done on an iPug.
Have just had a Google for the existence of Refurbished iPugs, they exist, £100 or so.
All of the software, or equivalent, you need is available on the I-store.
Transferring pictures, etc, to/from I-pug to PC can be done via USB stick.
This combination has brought my stress levels down due to having no interference from Windows update.
Plus your ‘PC’ is now mobile, if you get a SIM for the I-Pug.
Just a thought.
Now all I have to do is find my Favorites file...
When you first launchededed Firefox it should have asked you if you wanted it to be your default browser.
No, not really, but he has the same offended expression when you interrupt his computer game.
Ugh, sorry to hear that!
I’d much rather think about Hogwarts than about computers.
Or Pigeczema.
Isn't that the Slovakian wizarding academy?
Yes, it did. And I’ve decided I want Firefox, but I have to figure out how to get my Favorites File imported. It tells me, but only for documents, not the favorites I use to get around during the surfing times.
I’ll figure it out. I will. Yes. Yes, I will. After I have some coffee...
I believe instead of robes, the wizarding students wear tracksuits and wave wands while incanting "recumbo!"
Xmarks?
Sounds like the kind of school I would run.
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