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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.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
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To: Monkey Face

That’s sweet. Reminds me of when Anoreth blew out her transmission somewhere in Iowa.


5,241 posted on 10/29/2016 7:06:55 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Stop that. You're going to set the fire alarm off.)
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To: moose07

That’s no fun. It’s beautiful here. I’m sitting at the church playground with Frank waiting for the rest of the Spanish choir.


5,242 posted on 10/29/2016 7:10:46 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Stop that. You're going to set the fire alarm off.)
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To: Tax-chick

I can’t recall my son ever saying that the people in AR are not friendly or helpful. I haven’t been there more than just a few days at any one time, so I can’t tell you much about it. He has lived there for 25 years, I think, and I doubt if he will stay there once he and his wife are ready to retire. They will come back to Utah, I think.

I will be there and so will her parents, as they have been in St G for some time, now. So logic tells me they will head west.


5,243 posted on 10/29/2016 7:42:26 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Never trust a steering wheel. They turn on you.)
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To: Monkey Face

5,244 posted on 10/29/2016 8:16:59 AM PDT by null and void (Keep a sexual predator out of the White House, don't vote for his wife!)
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To: null and void

Hahahaha! She’ll never last long enough to get there.


5,245 posted on 10/29/2016 8:43:48 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Never trust a steering wheel. They turn on you.)
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To: null and void

By the way — that’s a catchy tagline...


5,246 posted on 10/29/2016 12:38:49 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never trust a steering wheel. They turn on you.)
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To: Monkey Face; null and void

Stolen and propagated on Facepagething. It’s only right...


5,247 posted on 10/29/2016 1:13:53 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; All

Ah. Yes. I should have known.

I stole mine from my son, also on FB!

And now, I’m going to bed and read.

See all y’all tomorrow!


5,248 posted on 10/29/2016 1:28:38 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never trust a steering wheel. They turn on you.)
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To: Monkey Face

Good night. We had a great time at the corn maze. There were other agricultural-themed activities, such as making friends with chickens.


5,249 posted on 10/29/2016 5:27:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm sure I don't know what you mean. You forget yourself.)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face
The World Series is in Chicago the next two nights..

Just sayin'

5,250 posted on 10/29/2016 5:48:07 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

They used to be called the Cleveland Spiders. The first American Indian professional baseball player played for the Cleveland Spiders.


5,251 posted on 10/29/2016 5:53:25 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm sure I don't know what you mean. You forget yourself.)
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To: Tax-chick

The Spiders were a National League team that has the dubious distinction of owning the worst ever season won-lost record (20-134) in their last year of existance. Louis Sockalexis (The Deerfoot of the Diamond) played his entire major league baseball career with the Spiders.

About the only standout for the Spiders was a pitcher by the name of Cy. They have an award named after him. Corey Kluber won the AL version in 2014.

When the Spiders sank into the western sea (in a sense literally since all the talent had been shuffled off to St. Louis by the owner - who just happened to own both teams) their assets such as they were were bought by an American League (which was a minor league at the time) team the Cleveland Lake Shores. In 1091 the American League classified itself as a major league and the Lake Shores became the Cleveland Bluebirds and then in 1903 the Cleveland Napoleons. Finally in 1915 they became the Cleveland Indians which just happened to be the nickname applied to the Spiders when Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, played for them. Now it was the official name, not a nick name...

And Corey Kluber? He’s pitching tonight.


5,252 posted on 10/29/2016 7:03:47 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

I think that was 1901, but maybe there was a DeLorean with a flux capacitor there.

Maybe 1091 was significant somewhere..


5,253 posted on 10/29/2016 7:07:08 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz
Finally in 1915 they became the Cleveland Indians which just happened to be the nickname applied to the Spiders when Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, played for them.

I read Frank and Kathleen a picture book about Mr. Sockalexis. He was an amazing all-around athlete, but unfortunately succumbed to success and died young.

5,254 posted on 10/29/2016 7:08:33 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm sure I don't know what you mean. You forget yourself.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

The king of Croatia died in 1091.


5,255 posted on 10/29/2016 7:09:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm sure I don't know what you mean. You forget yourself.)
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To: Tax-chick
"The king of Croatia died in 1091."

I'm pretty sure that William the Conqueror, winner of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and ruler of England afterward, was not having a good year in 1091.

5,256 posted on 10/29/2016 8:08:38 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: Tax-chick
succumbed to success and died young.

Had alcohol problems. And tuberculosis. Died at 42...

5,257 posted on 10/29/2016 8:10:19 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Tax-chick
William the Conqueror... was not having a good year in 1091.

He hasn't been spotted much since the late 1080's.

But it is rumored that he votes Democrat.

5,258 posted on 10/29/2016 8:22:09 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Tax-chick

Yeah, he was four years dead by then. Darn horses.


5,259 posted on 10/29/2016 8:29:52 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: Monkey Face

The way life should be. :)
Changing those big Wooden spoked Wagon wheels is a big ol’ job.


5,260 posted on 10/29/2016 10:47:06 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) One month to Toupee Day.)
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