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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The only molars I don’t have fillings in are the ones I finally had to have crowned.
I’m not sure my teeth are as much as 50% God-given at this point.
But there ain’t much gold in there (yet).
Good to see you, Darks!
Hang on to your keybroads, everyone. Typsos at 2:00 coming in fsat.
To: jj_fate
I love you. Marry me.
The above third post of the original Undead Thread, which went to the End of the Internet, was the impetus for launching us into space.
Everything that came after that, from the preparatory launch to the Moon, to our Pacific launch on the way to Mars, and eventually to our quiet and restful location here in the Asteroid Belt, was mere follow-through on that initial exceptionality.
Reading over the original posts now is rather saddening. So much charm and revelry, to quietly slip away into the strange limbo of cat pictures and recipe postings.
Ah, well, c'est la vie, as we used to say before the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
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So sorry to hear about this.
James’s snaggletooth is officially called “peg lateral,” and it’s not an unusual dentition phenomenon, according to the pleasant and helpful Dr. Dhulab, who does our whole family’s teeth. James can tell people it’s a sign of vampirism or lycanthropy until he’s old enough to have something done about it.
Welcome aboard, Peg!
I had started a story titled "Sweet Tooth". Maybe I should get back to work on it.
Nothing too fancy; time travel the easy way, it's set a couple of hundred years in the future.
Things will be different then, but what things? Go back, not two hundred years, but maybe four hundred. What has changed since then? What kind of corollary change could we expect to see in a few generations?
The Cubs will win their third World Series?
Another busy time when I have my head in a book. I’m always sorry to hear of a FReeper’s illness or death, and in looking at JeffHead’s site and his pics of the navy ships in San Diego just reminded me that with every single FReeper we lose, a tiny bit of history goes as well. Prayers for him.
What a cute little squee! I didn’t get up too early this morning, but I sure did want to sleep some more.
Zeke has been summoned to a “fair hearing” by the Suits at SNRHA, but they don’t want to give him a bus for “at least 20 people.” How “fair” is that? They are so afraid of him it isn’t funny. I promised him I would go, but I don’t want to.
I have to go to Wally’s and get cash this morning, and I don’t even want to do that. Charlie is going on the shuttle today, and said he will stop at the bank and get me some quarters, so I have to have the money for him. I also want to get some BBQ sauce to cook those tough ol’ pork chops in. I don’t know who Smith’s got their pork from this time but it was BAD.
THAT’S funny
Good morning. Not much action by my Offspring yet.
Bill the Son has a girlfriend.
I didn’t want to make it seem too improbable.
L. Sprague de Camp said, “It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.”
DOOM!!!
*GASP*
(Be still, my heart!) Bill, the Elusive Son has a GIRLFRIEND?? (said in a Maynard G Krebbs voice)
Oh my. Maybe they will want to cohabit, and he can let her deal with his blondness. Or not.
I went to Wally’s to get BBQ sauce and cash, and forgot to get the cash, so I had to stop at 7-11 and use the ATM, which charged me $4 for the privilege. I can’t just get cash with that card — it has to be on the same transaction as a purchase. I didn’t have anything more to purchase, but now I wish I had made up an excuse.
I hope they will not cohabit, as I believe this is both practically unwise and morally parlous.
What we know so far is that her name is Delaney, she is 20 years old, she’s attending community college, she lives in a nearby subdivision, and he met her when “hanging out” with a group of people in which she was included.
If you're trying to imply that we've somehow become normal I shall have to ask you to step outside!!!
I don't like having insulting people inside while I drink my coffee.
;)
I for one, don’t like the “co-habit” idea either and think it is, in a way, dangerous. I hope they have a long and interesting relationship.
Have they known each other long?
If it’s all that surprising for BtS to have a girlfriend maybe #2 little ArGee will finally find someone acceptable.
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