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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Here in NYC they actually take out joint mortgages without marrying.
How stupid is that?
Insulting people inside is more apt to end up with one person landing in an awkward position on a piece of uncomfortable furniture.
Can you imagine the nerve of some people?
Me ... normal?
And if the normal people ever heard someone say that then really look out.
If there are any normal people left, that is.
A couple of weeks, I think. However, they are "dating" rather than simply seeing one another with groups of other people.
My college roommate did that. She and the man, whom she met in law school, eventually got married, but then they got divorced after ... oh, ten years or so. All along, I thought marrying in Honolulu on Pearl Harbor Day was bad juju.
Oh man, that is A+ !!
LOL!
“Here in NYC they actually take out joint mortgages without marrying.
How stupid is that?”
Out here in Californiacator land, we see that happening and more.
Couples getting divorced and still owning the same home together. Some are still living in the same home together.
The latest thing, we are seeing are divorced couples, or ones who have lost a spouse, marrying or living together while still living separately in their original homes and not in a new one or just one of their original homes.
I was thoroughly confused by that, but please, don’t try to clarify. I’m happy in my ignorance, since I try to avoid all things Californicatorized. ;o]
Honestly, I don't see how people can afford to divorce. One of my friends has just done so, and the house where she and her children are living now doesn't even have furniture.
I don’t know why anyone would want to get divorced. I mean, whatever happened to “working things out?” Just the simple act of changing your name (I took my maiden name back) has become a monstrosity of paperwork and red tape. No thanks.
I always said if I ever got married again (not likely, at my age) I would be Mrs. Whatever, but my legal name would stay the same. I wouldn’t even bother to hyphenate it. Too much trouble.
My legal name is still my original name. It’s on all my parents’ estate paperwork!
I knew the first part but not the last part!
*stage whisper* I will be so very, very glad when the election is over with!
I might have changed at some point, but it was just too much work.
*I agree.* I should vote, though.
I’ve already voted, which makes the ads even more offensive.
And now, I’m going to leave the insanity to calmer minds and head for the bedroom where my mind can relapse. ;o]
Hope you have a good night! I’m going to dish up supper soon, and later, I’ll take James on a shopping trip with the Boy Scout troop to get food for their campout this weekend.
Mrs. ArGee has put up with me for nearly 35 years now. If she can do that, nobody has any excuse.
When kids ask me how I stayed married so long I ask them to move in closer because it’s a secret. Then I tell them the secret.
Don’t get divorced.
In light of next week being election week, when a possible new job opportunity dropped into my in-box in South Dublin I actually asked Mrs. ArGee what she thought.
South Dublin could be a very nice place to work.
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