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 ...
managed to avoid the ones that tend to run into things or go around curves too fast.
When stuff like that happens though it spawns one or more threads here on FR that get populated by all the pseudo railroad experts opining their not-necessarily-educated opinions as fact.
It gives me a few moments of diversion replying to them.
And on another note, it’s 46 blustery degrees here in ‘upstate*’.
*Using the NYC definition - anything not named in the class of things that are Five Boroughs, Long Island, or Westchester..
So, you're saying that before right now you were delusional?
So, you're saying that before right now you were delusional?
Well yessed.
I think what the railrode experts need to remember is that some rails are rode by engineers who are gubmint employees and some are rode by engineers wid brains.
Probably has something to do with questioning the renunciation of Poughkeepsie...
The biggest issue is that Peekskill is pronounced PEAKskill and not PIHKskill. I mean, just make up your minds, for goodness sake!
PoughKEEPsee and PEAKskill or PoughKIHPsee and PIHKskill.
You expect logic in this part of the country?
Oh look, I must have spelt pronunciation wrong.. ;-)
But I guess renunciation works too.
And on an unrelated note, I see that the advanced grass substitute now has acquired a cloak consisting of discarded deciduous tree leaves. Mostly maple. (Because the oak tends to have klingons that don’t let go until something new starts growing in its place. There’s a sermon of sorts there somewhere...)
Must have something to do with the coldening temps we are experiencing due to glowbull warmthing...
Of course I do.
There’s wildlife here.
I don’t expect logic from humans anywhere.
Languages such as Dutch tend to run a double vowel such as OO or EE without producing the sounds we assign those letters in English.
But I didn't stop to think that Alan Parsons Project had also recorded Eye In The Sky which is sort of interesting. I mean were they indicting themselves?
This reminded me that once upon a time Styx had recorded Born for Adventure in which they declared "I'll never surrender, live by the sword 'till the end. Not too long after that came out they recorded Renegade where they opened with the lament, "Oh, Mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law.
I find this sort of thing interesting.
Which says something about me, I suppose.
I know those songs. Sally and Pat have recently taken an interest in Poe. I’ll try to find the “Tales of Mystery and Adventure” CD that Anoreth used at the same stage, and if I can’t, Elen can get me one from iTunes.
My stinky obnoxious neighbor just came and asked me if I would share my Internet with him, because he seemed to think I could afford high-speed. The breeze was blowing my way and it’s enough to gag a maggot.
He interrupted a breathing treatment and an almost finished mah jhong game to ask me that, and began to tell me what a messed up job the “installer” did. I think the guy just wanted to get away from Patrick the Walking Stink Bomb. No one here likes him, and in addition to his aversion to water, soap and deodorant, he smokes.
He smokes so much that the Filtrete filters I use have a hard time, after the first week.
How do you get your photographs to look like a Thomas Kinkade painting?
But you know we have mostly missed an important day?
Research has found that chocolate, when eaten in moderation, can lower blood pressure. Just sayin'.. ;-)
Nice view!
I celebrated National Chocolate Day. I gave away a candy bar.
Then I stole a smaller one from a Halloween candy dish. I certainly want to participate fully in National Chocolate Day.
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