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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I end up wanting to take them all.
Me, too ... but it wouldn’t be fair to Jake and Shannon.
This kitten lives in the German Alps.
Same reason I don’t bring them all home. George is 17 now and deserves to be head cat without having to fight for his favorite napping spot.
That’s an old cat! Shannon is about 10 and Jake about 7.
LOL! And me being the sweet, considerate, thoughtful, kind, thrifty, brave, clean and humble, allowed you to have it by going to bed, lest I be tempted beyond my ability to resist.
Good goin’, ArGee!
Good morning! Today’s your big meeting, right? I hope it works out well for all of you. Everyone should be recording it on their phones!
Your FB work was very interesting, and always thought provoking, and I appreciated it, realizing as I did that it WAS “work.”
Thank you!
If I had batteries, I could record it on my little video camera.
I have another meeting with Zeke at 0500, but I don’t know to what end. I’m hoping the Triad of Evil gets their collective heads handed to them by HUD from San Francisco, but I don’t think that will happen.
In other news, I was sadly disappointed in NV, yesterday, voting for MORE gun control. It was a badly written law, slapped together at the last minute, and the libs won. I’m glad I’m moving because the restrictions on guns are getting ridiculous.
Good morning fellow Earthlings,
Am in Hungerford today, seeing a man about a Dog.
:)
Hope you’re not hungry enough to eat the dog!
The Ham and Tomato toastie is currently protecting the Dog. :D
“Ham and tomato toastie?”
That actually sounds pretty tasty! What is it? ;o]
I’m not that fond of tomato.
I have to get dressed and go to Walmart: we’re almost out of milk. Maybe there will be some markdown ground beef. I hate paying full price!
Ham, Tomato, cheese, in a sandwich. Launched into a toaster or under a grill, until crispy.
Very moreish.
Oh, yes...that sounds very good, indeed! Now I want to try it. I have ham and I have cheese, but no tomato... but I’ll be in a store this morning, very close to tomatoes. Yum!
Thank ye kindly.
Morning all. NYC officially gets election day off but some wanted to work and get a 4 day weekend instead.
I had to baby-sit them so I’m off today and tomorrow.
Gun control is only for people who aren’t already armed.
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in the fruit salad.
LOL!
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