New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit

space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

[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.

[Darksheare]

And thus another rampaging moose ran off with an object of some value.
Next, they will run off with cars!
And trains!
Moose in the cockpits of your aircraft!
Luxury liners, moose everywhere!
*International Space Station, airlock opens, a moose steps in, squints eyes at crew, then rampages the place*

[Covenantor]

First, what exactly do you mean by “Baby Oil”.

The clear mineral oil for infants.

Or,

The, “Oh Baby! Let me oil you up.”

[NoCmpromiz]

Baby Oil?

It’s for when they get squeaky...

[moose07]

First one.
Mineral oil for Infants.

Where or what is it extracted from? :D

[Darksheare]

Oil made from babies.
Much like Koala Oil.

[moose07]

ROFLOL!
Good Day to you Darks.

The only one of those that hasn’t had a Moose in it is the ISS, but we are working on that one.

[Darksheare]

Need to send a stuffed moose to the ISS.

[moose07]

Easier to control and safer in such a confined space.

Your Airlock comment has given me an idea, however.....hmmm...I wonder...

[Darksheare]

Worst part is, mental image was an animated cartoon.

[moose07]

Turn right and return to Earth or Turn Left and your Moosie fate awaits you. Bwahahahah!

[Darksheare]

A Room with a Moose!

[ArGee]

The fun of science fiction is imagining scenarious that actually would not play out.

The machines would not declare war on man. Man would be, at best, an annoyance. Since machines aren’t ambitious in the human sense they would strike a “live and let live” attitude.

Only if the humans start doing their annoying things would there be a problem.

[ArGee]

Human, you may or may not have noticed that the last thing we are interested in is this strange activity you call sex.

Please stop demanding rights for people who perform it in different ways or there. will. be. trouble.

[Monkey Face]

W00t! Good job!

[NicknamedBob]

"Moose in the cockpits of your aircraft!"

Running with the mooses in Pamplona.

[Tax-chick]

Evening, Darks! Watch out for the moose-plotz ...

[NicknamedBob]

And neither would you want to step in any mooszenmilch.

[Tax-chick]

Good point. Very sloppy.

[Silentgypsy]

Eeek!

[moose07]

Somerset