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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No, that wasn’t it. It was a Coupe, I think.
I dreamed that I was on the campout. I think there were bears ... but at home, it was only Jake.
It’s pleasant out, with a stiff breeze, and I’m trying to decide if I want to go to Albertson’s for the Pilsner, or to Walmart for the yogurt. Or wait until Monday, when the need will be immediate for the yogurt.
When I went to bed last night, I was hopeful that I would awaken feeling good enough to install either Linux or Firefox, but the barometer is dropping and I’m in a lot of pain, so concentrating on something that needs close attention is not something I dare start, right now.
It would seem another pain pill will be required since the first one wasn’t effective. *sigh*
I will go to Wally’s while I can still walk in a straight line.
Good idea. I’ve got Elen up and ready for choir practice. Some others haven’t yet emerged. Sigh.
I remembered last night that Kathleen has a riding lesson on Monday. I need to change my hair appointment.
Originally intended to have a Wankel engine, they couldn't get the corner seals to work so they dropped a long straight 6 in a place intended for a compact Wankel.
As a result you could barely see the 4th spark plug where the engine vanished under the fire wall, you could almost get a wrench on the 5th plug, and to change the last plug, you had to drop the engine!
Heh, very interesting! How are you today?
Tired, and I have to go to work and the DMV today...
I may have to go to the DMV, as well, but that’s going to be a real burn. The check I wrote hasn’t cleared, so I sent an email to find out why.
It will be Monday or later before I hear back.
I need to get the van inspected, but I’ll put it off!
The tag expires the end of this month, and I mailed the check on the 29th of September. This is making me nervous.
There is no grace period in NV, so it is due one day and past due the next. *shudder*
Sounds like you should call them or check their website.
While my choir was here, a red-tailed hawk landed on the pergola. I was worried for a minute, until I remembered both cats were inside. He didn’t stay long.
I've been thinking about putting a Wankel-style engine into an android.
Nice quiet operation, and using a lower octane fuel such as alcohol should alleviate the problem with seals.
Not to mention that you and your android could go out drinking together.
I generally drink at home.
The website won’t tell me anything except that I need to get a smog test, in red ink, which I don’t need because of the license plate category. I had to send in paperwork with the actual mileage written on it, along with payment. Which I did.
Calling them will give me a series of options, none of which will take me to a real human, so I either have to send an email, which I did, or go to the DMV, which I may have to do. I will know by Wednesday, most likely, as that’s about how long it takes to respond to an email.
If it comes in early enough and is in the negative, I can put a stop payment on the check, then go to the nearest ATM, which will charge me for the dubious honor of using it, and head for the DMV with paperwork in hand.
It’s a good thing I get up at oh-dark-thirty, or I would never be able to get there early enough to find handicap parking. And standing in line is extremely painful for me, but I have to do it for an hour until the doors open.
At that point, it will take 15 minutes to get done with business and walk out with a new 2017 sticker.
I drink at home, too when I have the Pink Drink and ice cubes. Since I’m the Designated Driver, I can’t go to a bar or restaurant and have a drink, as the cops are always on their toes here.
I would like to have gone to Smith’s or Albertson’s but it’s not in the cards. I will just hang tough.
Yesterday, I made up some tuna salad and I think the pickle relish was bad. Just as a precaution, I’ve started taking activated charcoal capsules, as I’m so prone to food poisoning. (Probably from the ulcers making my stomach so raw.)
Anyway, today I’m going to have a pork chop, baked in bread crumbs but without the fancy name. ;o] I hope it will be as tender as it looked!
I do too, but for me, a couple of six-packs would be a year's supply.
My philosophy is to be low-maintenance.
Afternoon! I’m back from the Lake Part Festival, which was nice. Kathleen rode the carousel five times. I’m baking a cake for the homeless shelter, but I’ll have to leave Sally in charge of it in a few minutes and go back to get Tom, Elen, and Pat. They could walk, but since I signed them up to work at the swim team both without a chance to decline, I’ll pick them up.
Bill’s going to work.
I just read three columns from my brother in CO. He has a weekly (?) column in a local paper, and he always picks great things to write about.
Today’s gifts were “free” offers, refurbished compared to new electronics and I forgot the middle thing. It was sideways and I can’t tilt my head to read it because of my neck, or figure out how to rotate it on Win 10.
Now, I’m eating my pork chop. A little tougher than I expected, so the next time, I will take the meat tenderizer to it before I bake it. It tastes good, though!
Now I wish I had gotten that Pilsner... Monday. I will do that very thing.
Yes, managed to procure rides to both practice last night and the event today.
We did three sets on the hour starting at 1PM. Occasional gusts of wind tended to skew my leadsheets into uninterpretable positions even with clips on them and forcing me to play one handed using the other hand to hold the music in place. A gust even launched the second set’s sheets to various parts of the property before I got them clipped down, and in the process of grabbing at them as they passed by I somehow managed to hit an unknown combination of keys, buttons, and sliders that caused my keyboard to go into a Hillary like freezeup that required a reboot (but no secret service dudes to hoist it into a van..)
Had hotdogs and beans, coffee, cider, doughnuts (and a bottle of water.. ;-) Fairly decent turnout, but now I must sit a spell..
And the Subaru still awaits its struts. Ebay says they are shipped. UPS says they don’t have them, but a label was created yesterday for whatever that is worth.
Whoever does the work should work safely. That's a lot of weight, and considerable force to constrain it.
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