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 ...
Prudent, not paranoid. Gas gauges fail and often lie.
I’m solidly in looking for a place to top the tank at the three quarter point. In fifty years I’ve run out of gas twice, once due to faulty gauge, the other due to leaky fuel line.
On long trips as a passenger I sneak glances at the fuel gauge to know when to start looking for gas stations. Be Prepared is not just the Boy Scout motto, it’s a rule of life.
WOW!
I have all those! Mine!
I want to boop that little nu-nu!
I know this is November, and I knew, on some level that this was the month for Thanksgiving Day. But as I was drifting off to sleep last night, I realized with a shock that I had no pumpkin, canned milk, pie crusts or whipped cream for pumpkin pie. I can’t have Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie! What’s WRONG with me??
Never mind the turkey dinner, I want that pie! I can share it with the peeps. But ohwell.
I’ve run out of gas, twice, as well. Once when someone forgot to switch tanks in the truck of my Significant Other YEARS ago, and once in the Tracker, deliberately — I learned I can go 267 miles on a 11 gallons of gas.
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It’s still a week away. We don’t have anything, either.
There really is nothing quite as pacifying as a full selection of Crayons.... :)
Most miles are uphill both ways. If I tried that, it would involve about twenty miles of walking.
I fill the gas tank often.
Well, then...now I feel better! LOL!
49 degrees, W @ 8 mph, gusts to 21 mph, 22% High of 60.
*shudder* Winter cometh.
AND colored pencils for those smaller spaces! And if you subscribe to doverpublications.com, you’ll get free coloring pages every Friday!
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I fill the tank once a month, when I get my SS check.
And if I found myself in a situation where I had to walk, I’d call AAA for five gallons of gas. But then, I’m a woman, and it isn’t smart for a lone woman to walk along the highway.
Awww...I love pugs! I had one once, by the name of Jocko!
Haha! Cute and clever cat!
We had a Siamese cat who liked corn on the cob.
Does a cat have ketchup or butter on a corn on the cob?
The only vegetable that should ever require ketchup is a potato, and only if it’s in the form of a chip or a Traitor Tater! (For those who don’t know: French fry.)
I on the other hand have never had a full set of crayons.
I am scarred for life..
Butter. But he would eat it without, too.
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