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 ...
The meanings of "most," "us," and "studies" here are unclear to me. If the description refers to those who went to Sunday School for a couple of years at elementary age, this might be somewhat accurate ... although Mr. Boyd has some interesting comments about the appropriateness of Genesis for young children. A person whose knowledge of the Bible comes from popular media alone might very well have little information other than some Genesis/Exodus content, but I would not call that "studies."
Aside from that, I think this is quite erroneous. Even if a person does not independently read and study the Bible a great deal, one who consistently listens to reading and explanation at his church will be exposed to a considerable amount of the Old and New Testaments (or the Old Testament, if he is a Jewish person).
It would not surprise me if the book you had was “Bible History,” published by TAN books. We had this when Anoreth and Bill were young. I also have an enormous “History of Israel” which is really a comprehensive history of the Middle East, incorporating archaeology up through the 1940s, when the book was published. It helpfully includes latitude/longitude cites for locations, so that one can look them up in a modern world atlas.
I did not actually sing to the washer last night, but I did hug and kiss it before bed. It is not as loud as the old one: I don’t think a whole fleet of black helicopters is landing on the roof.
Maybe I will name it Sloshy.
The list of such-like in history as well as science is rather long. Just a couple I think of off the top of my head.
The life of the body is in the blood.
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
He hangs the earth on nothing.
And after all the naysayers who were busy dumping Luke because Quirinius was not governor of Judea while Herod was king, it turned out that Quirinius was stationed in Judea twice.
But don’t worry. Those Bible clingers don’t really know anything.
If you can stand to use your beeber, check out Biblehub.com.
Lots of good study helps there.
I don’t know if they have the Joseph Smith translation, but they have a lot of them.
There are a significant number of people who have stopped calling it the Old Testament and started calling it the Hebrew Scriptures.
From what I find out on my own the churches I've attended have made many - er - interesting changes to the interpretations of the Scriptures over the millennia. If you try to read them through the eyes of the people to whom they were written you get a very different perspective.
As a simple example, in the late 1800s the commentators could all tell you exactly what historical events equate with the prophecies in Matthew 24, when Jesus foretold the destruction of Jerusalem. But now Matthew 24 is mostly taught as an end-times prophecy.
Are you looking for a new handle or did somebody have a baby?
Sorry if I should know these things.
What sort of names?
We have a couple inches of snow.
I would check out Biblehub, but I don’t have internet on my phone, so if I can do it on a laptop, I’ll check it out.
The Joseph Smith Translation only encompasses a very few verses, in relation to the Old and New Testament versions, so I’m not too concerned about finding them or not. But I will check out that site, for sure. I think you told me about it once before. I think.
Lucky me, the LDS church has published “student manuals” for those who are in college and no longer eligible for Seminary classes (9-12 grades) and they are available for anyone who wants a better understanding of what they are reading, including, habits, culture, geography, as well as Jewish Law before the coming of Christ.
I have them...I just don’t use them like I should, as it requires sitting at a desk or table. I read Scriptures at night. :o|
Yes, there are always differences in interpretation. I enjoy commentaries from a variety of sources because they remind me that (1) there are many ways to look at this, and (2) whatever I think, someone else has already thought it.
I hope it is pretty. We have a couple of inches of rain.
The fate of the old washer seems to have inspired the dryer to greater efforts. Sloshy has a half-brother who dries ...
Which is probably why I began to collect Bibles: I wanted to know how other people thought about the Bible, and as a result, I just have to take one off my shelf.
This morning was almost as busy as yesterday, but the morning isn’t over with. The wind is still up, but it isn’t the unbearable cold it has been the last two days, so I may go outside to sit with the Peeps for a bit.
I swept up the leaves that have accumulated during this wind. It seems I have one tree, just outside the patio fence, that is a major contributer. I don’t have a rake, so I had to use the dustpan to scoop the leaves into the plastic bag to take it to the Dumpster so it can be picked up.
The laundry has been folded and put away, and I still have the dishes to do. I had to call in a prescription for the other two meds that I use. The pharmacy was refilling them automatically, and I told them to stop! That was last year, but I’ve finally gotten to the end. Of course, these had to have the doctor’s approval to be renewed, so I’m waiting. In the mean time, I have to email a response to the pharmacy for the steroid, so it will get filled in the next two days. Or so. I can probably wait for Saturday to pick that up.
Tomorrow morning, I’ll go get gas in the truck and get my hair trimmed and that will be the end of the spending for me. For some reason, I’m very tired.
Mt Charleston looks absolutely stuning this morning, but that’s probably as close as I want to be to it. It’s a little colder there than here, but with much more snow!
Sloshy and Shrinky. Hmmm...nice ring. Kinda musical in an arid sort of way.
Anybody want this?
No?
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