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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.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
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To: Monkey Face

W000T !!! :)


6,601 posted on 12/07/2016 1:00:36 PM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Forward to the glorious world of next Tuesday !)
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To: Monkey Face

Hair has been cut. Then I went to The Salvation Army and found some things. A bright pink raincoat, a cashmere blouse (with a thread card attached for mending), a sky-blue knit dress for summer, a t-shirt with a snake (for Pat), a dark-red satin dress that’s only a little big for Kathleen, a gray cardigan (for Elen, so she’ll stop wearing mine).


6,602 posted on 12/07/2016 1:13:35 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

I’m moving to the “do I care?” apathy phase.

Take my electonic gadgets - please!


6,603 posted on 12/07/2016 1:17:08 PM PST by ArGee (I want to die peacefully like Fidel, not screaming like his victims.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

I’m moving to the “do I care?” apathy phase.

Take my electonic gadgets - please!


6,604 posted on 12/07/2016 1:17:09 PM PST by ArGee (I want to die peacefully like Fidel, not screaming like his victims.)
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To: Monkey Face

The combo pack of 4 is more spensive because the Chinese sweatshop workers who are packing them keep making mistakes and putting in 2 blacks which means more returns.

That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.


6,605 posted on 12/07/2016 1:19:17 PM PST by ArGee (I want to die peacefully like Fidel, not screaming like his victims.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’m just curious how the snake was made into the T-shirt? Was it the collar? The bottom hem? Maybe a side seam?


6,606 posted on 12/07/2016 1:21:01 PM PST by ArGee (I want to die peacefully like Fidel, not screaming like his victims.)
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Mayhap some cold weather is approaching.

By Saturday the high will be 38.

By Thursday it will be 25.

Time to dust off the jacket.


6,607 posted on 12/07/2016 1:30:12 PM PST by ArGee (I want to die peacefully like Fidel, not screaming like his victims.)
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To: Tax-chick; All

Oh, that sounds like so much fun! I keep threatening to go to the thrift store, but there are too many other things that I need to buy before I can just buy stuff I want, like at the thrift store.

But it sounds like all your finds were awesome!

I managed to get an entry done in my journal and now my fingers are tired, so I’m going to go take something for pain, and then head for the bedroom.

Tonight, I start on Revelations, and it’s taken me almost a year to get through the entire Bible, reading 3-4 pages a night. Some of it is still a little confusing, but when I have finished the last page, I’ll start back at Genesis.

And so dear pipples, I need to close. Hope y’all have a good night!


6,608 posted on 12/07/2016 1:54:04 PM PST by Monkey Face (No matter how much you push the envelope, it's still stationery.)
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To: ArGee; Monkey Face

Sigh. The snake was just printed.

However, the blue dress had a tag on it saying it was hand-painted (butterflies) and first-price was $64.


6,609 posted on 12/07/2016 2:26:50 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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"Sigh. The snake was just printed."

You have to catch them just coming out of the egg to get them to imprint properly.

6,610 posted on 12/07/2016 4:46:12 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Even then, they’re just pretending to like you until your guard is down.


6,611 posted on 12/07/2016 6:49:09 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Monkey Face

Go ahead.


6,612 posted on 12/07/2016 6:58:49 PM PST by null and void ( If you defy federal law, we deny federal funds.)
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To: moose07
Don't know if this will work but if so it's a family video.. ;-)

Extremely rare albino bull moose spotted in Alaska

6,613 posted on 12/07/2016 11:42:03 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

Well it works, but you get notalwaysAccu(rate)Weather’s ads too..


6,614 posted on 12/07/2016 11:43:33 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

What a beautiful creature. Notice how he posed for photos. :D
Thanks for that, great to see family pics.


6,615 posted on 12/08/2016 12:12:03 AM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Forward to the glorious world of next Tuesday !)
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6,616 posted on 12/08/2016 2:12:32 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick

Oh, my goodness! I WANT that little floof ball! Squee!


6,617 posted on 12/08/2016 4:19:03 AM PST by Monkey Face (No matter how much you push the envelope, it's still stationery.)
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To: Monkey Face

She will keep you safe in a dangerous world.


6,618 posted on 12/08/2016 4:19:41 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick

The dress sounds beautiful!

Not so much the snake shirt. I’ll let Pat keep that.


6,619 posted on 12/08/2016 4:19:56 AM PST by Monkey Face (No matter how much you push the envelope, it's still stationery.)
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To: Tax-chick

That is the cutest little kitten I’ve seen in ages. I’d have to pack that little thing with me everywhere I went.


6,620 posted on 12/08/2016 4:21:18 AM PST by Monkey Face (No matter how much you push the envelope, it's still stationery.)
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