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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: ArGee

LOL!


6,781 posted on 12/13/2016 9:24:32 AM PST by Monkey Face (I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.)
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To: ArGee; Monkey Face

I’ve attempted to leave children at Walmart, but didn’t succeed.


6,782 posted on 12/13/2016 11:28:03 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick

Chillins are fast and they’re very, very sneaky.


6,783 posted on 12/13/2016 11:31:59 AM PST by ArGee (Getting a life is what happens while you're doing other things.)
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To: ArGee

I was putting the goods in the van one day when Sally turned up, asking, “Why didn’t you come looking for me?”

“I decided I was ready to go to jail first,” I said.

Some days are like that.


6,784 posted on 12/13/2016 11:33:49 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick

My guess is the staff saw you leaving and told Sally to get out into the parking lot after you before they had to take care of her.

Back when - my parents were borrowing my uncle’s motor home to come pick me up in Missouri and head over to Arizona. Along they way they managed to leave my sister at a gas station. My mom laughed about how a family friend checked the tiny bathroom in that motor home 3 times to make sure she wasn’t there.

Unfortunately, they went back for her.


6,785 posted on 12/13/2016 11:37:21 AM PST by ArGee (Getting a life is what happens while you're doing other things.)
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To: ArGee

She could have had a fascinating life story!


6,786 posted on 12/13/2016 11:48:17 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick; ArGee

I have nightmares of leaving myself at Walmart, just...wandering the aisles...looking for something I don’t need...wondering where the exits are...and did I drive my truck? If so, where did I park it?

But thankfully, I come to grips with myself and realize those nightmares are the reasons I go early in the morning and hurry through the place, getting my shopping done in 20 minutes. :o]


6,787 posted on 12/13/2016 12:50:51 PM PST by Monkey Face (I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.)
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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; ArGee
"I have nightmares of leaving myself at Walmart, just...wandering the aisles...looking for something I don’t need...wondering where the exits are...and did I drive my truck? If so, where did I park it?"

Been there, done that:

Lost In Macy's

I got lost in Macy’s,
So I went to the Lost and Found.
I thought I could be found in there,
But no one was around.

I sat down to wait a bit,
Among things that people lose,
I snuggled down in soft stuffed toys,
And took a little snooze.

Later, when I woke myself,
The store had gotten dark.
I have to say it had me scared!
Like a cemetery park.

I sneaked off then to the bathroom,
And kept my head down low.
The mannequins were scary, still,
Their shadows made a show.

I couldn’t figure why my folks,
Just chose to leave me there.
Weren’t they worried about me?
Didn’t they even care?

I knew that I would find them,
They wouldn’t travel far.
Although they had my money,
I had to drive the car.

NicknamedBob . . . . . March 12, 2005

6,788 posted on 12/13/2016 6:59:46 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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6,789 posted on 12/14/2016 2:10:50 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick

10


6,790 posted on 12/14/2016 3:28:32 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Great minds, eh, Bob? :o])


6,791 posted on 12/14/2016 4:04:19 AM PST by Monkey Face (I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.)
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To: Tax-chick

Oh, squee! What a perfect shade of gray! And that little face needs to be nuzzled.


6,792 posted on 12/14/2016 4:05:45 AM PST by Monkey Face (I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.)
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To: Monkey Face

The problem with kittens is that they grow up. Jake woke me up at 4:55 this morning. “Gah,” I said, when I looked at the clock. “If I don’t get up now, the alarm will go off in 15 minutes anyway.”

At least it’s starting to get light.


6,793 posted on 12/14/2016 4:13:08 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’ve had my shower and will soon head out for the labs. I’m going to check to see if the clinic has one, and that way, I can have the blood test before or after my appointment in the same building.

The tough part will be scheduling the transfusion, if I need one. The doctor will phone me with the results as soon as she gets them, so I will have tomorrow, the weekend and Monday.

Friday the thrift store is going to pick up some stuff and I want to be here when they come, so I’m not going anywhere.

I think I’d better go have my steroid. Breathing is a little difficult. It’s the thin blood, I know. I’m just glad I’m taking iron pills, or it would have been a lot worse, a lot sooner.

And it’s not getting light out...


6,794 posted on 12/14/2016 4:49:22 AM PST by Monkey Face (I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.)
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To: Monkey Face

We may actually have sunshine today. The cats are hopeful.

I need to put some laundry in the dryer and then cut up vegetables for my prayer group.


6,795 posted on 12/14/2016 4:51:21 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick

Cloudy again here, but “warm,” in the mid 60’s. The weekend is going to give us a high of 40. I’m not ready for that!


6,796 posted on 12/14/2016 5:06:18 AM PST by Monkey Face (I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.)
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To: NicknamedBob
Lost and Found?


6,797 posted on 12/14/2016 5:19:32 AM PST by ArGee (Getting a life is what happens while you're doing other things.)
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To: Tax-chick

Well, squee gets the big 6789.


6,798 posted on 12/14/2016 5:20:33 AM PST by ArGee (Getting a life is what happens while you're doing other things.)
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To: ArGee; Monkey Face; Scoutmaster

LOL!

I’ve been cutting up vegetables while listening to Tiffany Poon, the official Chinese classical pianist of the Undead Thread.

One of the comments on the Chopin nocturne I have up now says, “Roses are red, violets are blue. There is always an Asian who’s better than you.”


6,799 posted on 12/14/2016 5:35:59 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: Tax-chick; ArGee

And this one is heading on down the road...later, all!


6,800 posted on 12/14/2016 5:47:10 AM PST by Monkey Face (I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.)
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