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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Sometimes an airport employee in an electric cart will just offer a ride. That happened to me once when I got off an airplane carrying all my worldly goods and a baby.
No electric carts where I go!
Great one, Nully!
Of course, Cinnabon got hate from the tolerant left for that!
Of course. Ya gotta love ‘em. Well, not exactly... ;o]
Right now this site needs a ‘Like’ button. Just for Today, you understand.
:)
I would like to think it was a joke too...
However it was in a series of photos of things not done right, e.g. tying two ladders together end to end to gain more height or lifting with a crane-truck without the outriggers extended - that type of stuff.
Because of that, it just might be some yokel’s idea of grounding. After all, it IS in dirt..
(Methinks they would have been better served by clamping their ground to some part of that metal superstructure.. ;-)
It seems that somewhere, in the dark, seldom visited recesses of my mind, someone (husband? father?) told me that grounding to another metal (?) object that was already on or in the ground, was a good substitute for temporary grounding of something. It seems...
Well, I hope everyone lived.
Back from choir practice. The family, other than Frank and Kathleen, have gone to see the Star Wars movie. Later, I will have a meeting about the church library.
I’ve just worked out what it is.....
It is a grounding system for AC only. The capacitive effect of the Plastic bucket will stop DC from passing.
*Backing away very slowly *
I didn’t understand much of that, but I deduce that it’s a bad thing.
Just a lame attempt at humour. :)
It was probably quite clever, but I’m not sufficiently knowledgeable about to topic to understand.
The unpacking is finished. Things are now put away, except for the jewelry, which will be put away soon.
Yesterday, after I got home, I went to Charlie’s and got my mail. Seven Christmas cards. In one was a note for my SiL in AZ. It’s official: my brother has Dementia. I will have to research that, because my sis-in-law is 91 (Bro is 86, I think) and has a mentally disabled son to care for, in addition to my brother.
The house they live in is in Trust to the son, so I don’t know what will happen to him when his mother passes. What’s more, I don’t know what’s going to happen to my brother when that happens. I doubt his children will want him. I think the daughter I’m closest to has separated from her husband, so I have no idea what the dynamics will be when it all unfolds.
I’ll be glad when this year is over with.
The electronic debice ,the Capacitor, acts much like a bucket as far as DC is concerned. It charges up (Fills) then the current stops when it reaches full. Maximum capacitance. DC no longer appears to flow.
AC on the other hand changes direction many times a second so the Bucket never actually fills, (Fill, empty, fill, empty) ,so the AC appears to pass clean through the Bucket.
Unless it’s a flux capacitor.
But if I remember correctly, those are only found in DeLoreans..
Good plan. I’m going to use some brain waves on my washer, see if it will complete a load for me.
I just came in from talking with the Peeps in 38 degree temps. Amazingly, they didn’t meet when I was gone, so leaves and debris were all over the picnic table. Wowser.
My hands are cold but I need to go sort my pills. I should have done it earlier, but things don’t always go as planned.
And, ohmygoodness! I forgot a little day trip we took into Little Rock to ride the trolley. The entire thing was rather strange, and we had brought our own sandwiches to eat at a food “barn” thing.
Then we walked to a little store called “Ten Thousand Villages,” which dealt in items from all over the world. It’s my usual thing to go hunting for Nativities when I visit my son, so this was good, as all Christmas items were half-off or more.
I found a cute ceramic “shooting star” Nativity from Peru. The star formed the background as well as stage for the little Nativity figures. The Three Wise Men were on llamas, and all were dressed in traditional Peruvian garb. My son said $12 wasn’t a bad price for it. It’s about 8” long and 2” high. Really different!
It’s on display until I get ready to pack the rest of the stuff. I need to get busy!
(Medevac just went overhead on it’s way to the trauma center in Vegas. That thing is so heavy, it hurts the ears to feel/hear the blades beating.)
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