I need this bit of signage explained.. ;-)
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 ...
Yes! Your Good self ! Woot! :)
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It’s cold, here, Moosie. At least we don’t have to wade through the snow.
Back from Weight Watchers. After checking on the laundry, I’ll go to Walmart. Bill went to work, I guess, but there’s no sign of the teenaged girls, just Pat doing maths.
If you pull on a one-thousand pound block for one hour as hard as you can you will have done no work at all.
Pity the boss who asks you to move the block and then points that out.
No Snow here ,yet.
They’ve had some further north.
I put the lights up or office today. They have to be on steady mode, because Health and Safety....
Thanks, ArGee! I’ll think of you when I head east tomorrow. And the rest of the Undeaders.
I told the Peeps I would have to call during the Mail Vigil to put in my two-cents-worth. Haha.
I have no idea how that will work when I move...
Wow. Government really likes to govern where you are... :o|
We do have snow on Mt Charleston, but I’m not going up there to play in it!
Well, kiddees, I’m taking my anemic self to bed. I’ve asked Zeke to take me early in order to be able to walk to the gate I need on the correct concourse. I can’t afford to tip someone to wheel me there.
I’ll be up in time for the Send-Off Kitteh to do it’s job.
Later!
Should I do the Morning Kitteh before I go to bed tonight?
I’ll have to be up at 0300 on Friday to take Bill the Son to the airport for his flight to Seattle. “Are you going to leave your car in long-term parking?” asked his Dad, who’s not all there sometimes. “Of course not: that would be idiotic,” I said. “What time is your flight, Bill?”
I made it Uptown and back last night, so I’m all pumped now for an early-morning airport run. Won’t even need a MapQuest (which it’s hard to see in the dark while you’re driving).
You forget that I've had training in how to build a pyramid.
Thousand pound blocks are nothing.
:-(
To expand upon this concept, let's conduct a little thought experiment:
I picture the thousand pound block as being approximately two feet square by four feet long. (Sixteen cubic feet times about eighty pounds per cubic foot equals twelve hundred eighty pounds; close enough).
Now further imagine a sturdy half-inch rope and a simple two by four about eight feet long.
Secure the two by four to the block with the rope with the board sticking up from the floor to the ceiling, then using a bit more rope tied to the end of the board, simply rotate the block and roll it forward from resting on one face to resting on another.
Reset your rope and move the block again. Do this as many times as needed to move the block to the position needed.
Thousand pound blocks are simple.
To deal with huge multi-ton blocks you'll need more wood, more rope, and more men.
To build a pyramid, you'll also need more multi-ton blocks and about twenty years.
I need this bit of signage explained.. ;-)
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road can take you there.
This is the 20th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s passing.
I called Heather Wade on Midnight in the Desert, and proposed that he join Watt, Fahrenheit, and Volta and have a new unit of measurement named after him.
The Sagan is defined as billions and billions and billions...
“Midnight in the Desert”
Soon be time to put your Camel to bed.... :)
Well that is true..
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