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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LoL.
Literally.....
A detective closes the case.....Hmmmm, is this doggie a detective in disguise?
Morning Face,
Bing looks like a Fair ground picture ,or something. (?)
Ready to board!
That Dog has been through a TSA checkpoint before....
He’ll help them sniff.
Now that’s class!
It’s actually a “The Neon Boneyard” where they place all the old neon signs from casinos and such that have been razed and or otherwise disposed of.
Young Electric Sign Co (YES for short) saw an opportunity and restored a lot of them, moved them over to Fremont Street by the Fremont Street Experience, and thus, we have the Neon Museum. A fun place to wander through in cooler weather!
The saying around our house is: “If it exists, there is a Red Dwarf of it.”
Now that I like.
A Neon Sign Bone yard...perfect tourist attraction.
Those things will be worth a few quid. Interior designers over ‘ere would give their eye teeth to get access to those.
(The Book of British Teeth describes Interior Designer Teeth as: Acceptable in Public. )
Could have been “his dog’s nose,” without further text supplying the pronoun’s antecedent.
Blech. Just let the dog sneeze all over her a few dozen times.
Some have, indeed, been bought, but there are some that are not for sale at any price. Of course, YES Co has salvage rights on some, but others are too iconic to be anywhere but in the museum.
I think it started out as a hobby project for the owner, and then he decided to go full tilt with the idea and contacted the mayor’s office. The rest is history.
Of course, it helped that the then mayor was Oscar Goodman, who was a mob lawyer, but that’s neither here nor there! His wife is mayor, now. And she declared Las Vegas a “sanctuary city.” GAH!!! I didn’t vote for her, being safely ensconced in the City of Henderson!
Wellden...
Bing is Microsquish. If I ever accitentally open a Bing search I close it before I can become contaminated.
Since I have Win Tin Tin, I’m in mortal peril, then, I guess.
To the topic of the thread, what is a nude warf and what does it have to do with astronomy?
Well, I have heard you say rude things about your Dell. I’d say it’s tainted.
But if it makes you feel any better - tainted stays away from Windows since Windows 8.
Nude warf or Worf... not gonna happen, nope.
...and don't know about the astronomy angle, but things are getting pretty spacey for a monday.
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