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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
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To: moose07

Don’t forget your towel...


541 posted on 07/19/2016 12:46:45 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: All

I know this isn’t a political thread, but the more I think about it the more I think Melania Trump was hoping people would be encouraged to look up Michelle Obama’s speech and then start laughing out loud about the idea that Barack valued his word as his bond. Let alone working for what you get.

It has me laughing out loud, anyway.


542 posted on 07/19/2016 1:06:56 PM PDT by ArGee (JFK put a man on the moon. Obama put a man in the girl's bathroom.)
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To: Covenantor

“pretty spacey for a monday. “

Someone put Catnip in the Air-conditioning intake.
Makes Monday pass off for a Friday. :)


543 posted on 07/19/2016 1:10:49 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: moose07

If’n onlyz.


544 posted on 07/19/2016 1:11:41 PM PDT by ArGee (JFK put a man on the moon. Obama put a man in the girl's bathroom.)
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To: ArGee

I will NEVER say anything good about this Dell. I don’t want to even say “my” in referring to it. *GAH!*

When I’m ready for a new computer, it will NOT be a Dell!

And nothing makes me feel any better about this piece of doo-doo Dell.


545 posted on 07/19/2016 1:12:50 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: NoCmpromiz

Perish the thought.
Lifeventure make a beautiful microfibre trekking towel.
Packed away in a 6”.4”.2” pack. Wonderfully useful in the bag.
And of course,this being Blighty, they also make an 12” collapsible Brolly.

Douglas Adams wasn’t joking.....
:)


546 posted on 07/19/2016 1:18:06 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: moose07

So autocorrect doesn’t include time warp in its bag of tricks? Another reason to dislike it.

;>)


547 posted on 07/19/2016 1:20:12 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

LoL,
Your secret is safe with me. :)


548 posted on 07/19/2016 1:25:25 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: Covenantor; moose07
doesn’t include time warp...
549 posted on 07/19/2016 1:43:46 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

should have included warning it was from Rocky Horror... whatever.

never saw it, will never watch it.

but thanks anyway.

;>)


550 posted on 07/19/2016 1:51:48 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

I haven’t seen it, either, although I’m familiar with some clips. Sheltered life ...


551 posted on 07/19/2016 1:57:30 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The real world does not unfold according to our neat ideological models." ~Kevin Williamson)
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To: Monkey Face; moose07
"... 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."

As the saying has it, behind every good man is a good woman, or in this case, another Goodman.

552 posted on 07/19/2016 2:50:41 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: Covenantor

Umm..

It’s from Rocky Horror.

A singularly spectacular waste of time, so you are missing nothing. ;-)


553 posted on 07/19/2016 4:07:22 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

think nothing of it...saw the title and no thanks.


554 posted on 07/19/2016 6:25:12 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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Stolen from Facepagething...

I think taking your own photo with a cell phone was termed a “selfie” because “narcissism” is just too danged tough to spell.


555 posted on 07/19/2016 10:40:09 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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And this breaking story from just over the boarder from me.. ;-)


556 posted on 07/19/2016 11:26:33 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: moose07
I see according to the Telegraph that the trains o'er there are suffering from glowbull warming.. ;-)

UK weather:'Vision of hell': Commuters endure travel 'carnage' as roads and rail network buckle under the heat

557 posted on 07/20/2016 12:49:58 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Tax-chick; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...

558 posted on 07/20/2016 1:50:24 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The real world does not unfold according to our neat ideological models." ~Kevin Williamson)
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To: NoCmpromiz

...and it looks as if the leader in white face is a painted up black cow wannabee, a bovine Elizabeth Warren.


559 posted on 07/20/2016 3:42:20 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Heh, good one.


560 posted on 07/20/2016 3:49:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The real world does not unfold according to our neat ideological models." ~Kevin Williamson)
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