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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Yes, that’s weird. But nutritious, I suppose.
Pat has always been invisible, except when I was there. Oh. Wait. One day we went to the church for something and Pat went into the woods, making himself instantly invisible.
I was trying to decide what I was going to do today, and I think it will be something simple like replacing the things I took out of the banker’s box. That would be a good start. Then I can sweep and mop the floors around the rug, so the place really looks clean. It’s getting there.
Maybe I could pack the plate collection...I will get more newspapers from Charlie and do that, tomorrow or Tuesday.
I have a “cigar-box” full of crayons that I got at Walmart several years ago. And the colored pencils are in (what else?) a pencil box with a couple of sharpeners. :o]
Would I let rug rats use any of them? No. I would buy a box of crayons or some colored pencils for each of the munchkins. But that’s me. What’s theirs is mine and what’s mine is my own. (So said me Mum.)
NOooo-o-o-o-o!
Plate collection is a good thing to pack, unless you’re eating off them.
This natural gift for invisibility needs to be studied. I can see applications for this...If it can be recreated.
I believe it’s a form of telepathic control: he’s not really invisible, he’s just preventing us from seeing him.
A gift if ever there was one.
(IIRC The CIA carried out work in this field. (The Men who stare at Goats))
I’mn bored
Um...
Grab a box of 50 and go up the range for an hour(?)
Now I’m not bored!
I heard yesterday that SPAM is considered a delicacy in Korea.
So I guess Vegemite ice cream could make sense, too.
Does this mean Pat is in my cube? I don’t see anyone here but me.
I was told once that being bored was a sign of a lack of imagination.
But when I started using my imagination the missus got upset.
So I stick with bored.
No, no eating off the plates. I was going to hang them when I first moved in, but I had dislocated my shoulder a month earlier, and needed help hanging things. My daughter came and hung the family paintings, saying she would be back to hang the plates. That was three years ago this month.
So the plates are in a tote bag, waiting. I will pack them as soon as I get more papers from Charlie. I will also build a box for them. Or two.
As I was doing the dishes, I realized I had forgotten to pick up the prescription that is waiting for me, and I don’t think I have enough cents. By maybe .07 of them are needed. *sheesh*
My body is working, but my mind isn’t. My bad.
LOL!
I read somewhere a very long time ago, that “only a bore is bored.” I never understood that until I grew up and got married. Igor was often bored, usually when he couldn’t talk about himself or do something to gratify himself.
So now, when I hear someone say, “I’m bored,” I immediately think of Igor.
Only via ‘Distance viewing’ techniques.
WD40 is good for detecting locally cloaked humans.
It’s actually got about 2000 more uses, as well.
OK...who
Will...
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