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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I had another Fluster of Functionality and emptied the garage freezer. Most of the stuff fit in the kitchen freezer, a few things are being thawed for use in the next couple of days, and a very large piece of beef, more than two years old, has been left on the doorstep across the street, where Vicki will realize it’s a gift from me for her several dogs.
I hope that, before bedtime, the garage freezer will have thawed sufficiently that the big frost-blocks can simply be pulled off and thrown in the grass. Then it’s just a matter of wiping up.
It seems when you get the Nesting Urge, so do I! LOL! I think I’ll pack up some books this morning. I have a couple of boxes handy, but I’m not sure about that packing tape. I will have to reinforce the bottom of the boxes in order to make sure the books don’t fall out during the moving process.
After we had that discussion of Biblical proportions this morning, I went online to find the school I went to in SLC. It’s still in existence, but I think they no longer are in the old building, but have built a larger one on the site. I remember the Rectory was across the street, but the nuns lived in the school building.
Anyway, I thought I would write to them and find out the name of the book. Who knows? They may still have some in the attic... I checked online, but found a few by the title you mentioned, but most were printed in 1929 or earlier, and I don’t think that’s what we had.
The Bible History we had in the 90s was a reprint of a much older edition.
I’m boiling up some frozen vegetables to make soup. It won’t be a very interesting soup, but it will be hot.
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I will take some pills before I eat a sandwich, then I will go check the mail.
Was that book you had maroon in color? With very heavy, shiny pages? Slim but over-sized?
Of course you know the reason nuns did all that teaching is because they were very good students. Everyone has heard, "Nuns shall pass!"
Haha! There were quite a few priests who taught there, and even some laity. My Spanish and religion teachers were priests and the math teacher was “Mr Peepers.”
I had to ride the city bus to school. I remember doing that, but think it was .15 cents and a transfer. Or something.
No, ours was about the size of an average paperback, blue cover, quite thick.
A Lovecraftian “sigil” with cthonian tentacles coming through it would work too.
Very amusing, guys.
I said "us" so as to include myself in a gentle chiding. The other words for similar reasons. I would not want to live in a world where every individual takes on the task of understanding and applying the lessons of scripture with a religious fervor.
For what would be the fun of that? (If you don't think that God has a marvelous sense of humor, then you haven't really looked closely at what many consider his most significant creation -- man.)
There may be some who think I like to use long words and long-winded explanations, but just look at the kind of trouble I get into when I use short words instead!
That looks more like hemp cord than cables.
Ohhhhhh—gorgeous—thank you!
Lol! Thanks for posting!
God, indeed, has a sense of humor, but it doesn't apply to His making of humans. As stated in several places in the Old and New Testaments, God made us in His Image. And He didn't specify "spirit" image. So I take it to mean exactly "His image."
And that, folks, is my Father Mulcahy Sermon of the Day.
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That looks like clean laundry to me! What a squee!
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by that, but I don't want to live in a world where people are so sure of their interpretation they won't listen to reason. People like that demanded Jesus be killed.
I've come to discover that God didn't give us Scriptures so we could come up with bureaucracy that maintains the rules. He wants us to know Him. Scripture is a revelation of who He is.
Unfortunately, people really like having rules.
That's why God gave us the Ten Commandments.
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