New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit

space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

[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.

[Covenantor]

Le pants nez de ma tante est sur la table.

Ahhh schutzhundt!

[moose07]

Awful.
*respect the classics, man*. :)

[moose07]

Drink more Ovaltine. :)

[NoCmpromiz]

... it’s like being in Quebec.

They have a different word for everything up there.

[Tax-chick]

You cleaned the crud from your dog’s nose with a syringe? Bon Dieu!

[NicknamedBob]

I keep clicking on this, but all I get is a 505.

[null and void]

Cat? Is that you?

[NoCmpromiz]

The answer is ‘no’.

(re: ewer tagline)

[NoCmpromiz]

We already knew he was her running mate long before they printed the bumper sticker..

[NoCmpromiz]

And here's another something for history buffs..

Doc flies again

[Tax-chick]

"I ketched mai bruvver. Now wut?"

[Monkey Face]

Odd. I never had mumps, but I had three-day measles several times as a kid, but never got the German measles (hard measles) until I was 29. But chicken pox, yes. Ugly disease, that. My son had it far worse than I did. I had it when I was seven (maybe) and my son, poor little tyke, got it when he was two.

He was so covered with them and suffered so much...I dressd him in my husband’s T-shirt so nothing would rub against the blisters, and had to cover him with oatmeal ointment to try and help dry them out.

He had them on his eyelids and in his mouth, and he wanted cream of tomato soup. And cried with every bite.

But I digress.

I was fairly healthy as a kid, and got all the childhood diseases but one — mumps.

[Monkey Face]

Oh, my. That gave me cold chills. Thanks! :o])

[Monkey Face]

What beautiful colors those are! SQUEE! Those babies can’t more than a few weeks old. *hug da kittehs*

[Tax-chick]

Abyssinians. They are extremely superior.

[moose07]

Dangnabit , Rumbled !

The Language of Red Dwarf, better than any Babel Fish . :)

[moose07]

That was the translation I got, but decided that as my French is at Kindergarten level I’d got it wrong.
Poor Doggie.

P.S, Have you backed up your Doggies Data lately?

[Monkey Face]

I was looking for something online this morning, and pulled up bing.com. Beautiful shot!! I recommend it!

[Monkey Face]

If the Abyssinians don’t shed, and if I could afford one, I would have one because they are so beautiful!

[Covenantor]

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“You sucked fluid out of her dog’s nose with a dropper, for God sake.”

The pauvre chien had been sniffing “Les Fleurs du mal”, what else was one to do.