I checked just to make sure I wouldn't see this..
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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Sounds really neat. I didn’t get my Nativities out this year. Maybe next year!
Mine didn’t come out this year, either. I figured I wasn’t going to be here so why bother. Next year, I will do that — new place, new things/events/friends to be thankful for, etc.
I should have gone to Walmart, but I don’t think I have enough to get rice pudding and yogurt. I gotta have something for food besides Instant Breakfast. That’s getting old. Some meat would be good...
I have some leftover pork roast.
Check your phone!
Oh, that sounds so good! I haven’t had pork roast for a long time!
Very nice. I love the llamas.
Aren’t they cute?
And now, since my appointment is over with, and there is no more damage I can do today, I’ll head for bed. With luck, I can sleep in tomorrow. Maybe until 0500!
So...
Did the washer succumb to the brainwave treatment?
Brainwashing is not as effective as you've been led to believe.
It turned out I didn’t have a load to wash. Maybe it will work once everyone has changed out of their gym clothes.
I checked just to make sure I wouldn't see this..
You should make sure your windows are up before cleaning the snow off your car. That will keep snow from getting inside it.
I prefer to have the windows up before the snow starts falling. Simplifies matters.
I had to really look at that to realize it was a steering wheel. The windows in my truck remain up unless I’m in it and driving somewhere in pleasant weather. Otherwise, it would be full of dust, leaves, insects and the odd feral cat. No thanks. I don’t want any of that! (Including the snow!)
Aww.. squee! So much floof in the morning! *smooch doze kittehs**
Good morning. These kittens are in the U.K., so you’ll just have to wave at them.
Dang! Debbie Reynolds died. What a loss. Two from the same family, in the same week. *sheesh*
Does anyone want...
this?
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