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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But at least OscartheGrouch didn’t take your parking spot. ;-)
‘Face had that for a tagline for a while.
I’m milling about drinking wine, waiting for Jamie My Hairdresser to come get her son, whom I brought home from Boy Scout camp along with some of my sons.
I told him he could take a shower, but he doesn’t have any clean clothes to put on.
LOL! Mine burn up their bearings with our usage.
I remembered to open my birthday card from my brother ... and found the title to Bill’s car in it. I guess my brother didn’t want to waste a stamp. Like his nephew, he’ll never be poor ...
Assigned to monitor the wash cycle so it was evenly loaded, I always succumbed to temptation and played Viking with the big lid. I left our lid in factory new condition. Those folks must have had hard sword fighting kids to do that damage. And when the spin dryer needed to run I was shifting that lever like a truck driver. A little imagination and any chore becomes less tedious.
OscartheGrouch was at work, which is why I chose today to do it! He doesn’t have any place to park at the moment, unless he chooses to park in the circle.
:o])
Or am I the only one who remembers the early 50's?
My question is, where are the wringers?
Now that I think on it, it probably was an Easy....every other appliance was a Kenmore though.
Ours didn’t have the “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” windows either. I do remember the demo model washing machines that had the colored poker chips to demonstrate the effiency of the curved agitator blades.
Televisions, the term TV came later, were mostly pieces of furniture, wood cabinets, some with doors. Grams crocheted some cover for ours, fruit bowl and little ceramic geehaws. Only watched when parents were home except for sat. cartoons.
I think I missed Bill getting a car from your brother. My bad. I must have been out for a walk. Or something... I think.
That was — ummm — interesting. I think!
No wringers on that model. Had a vertical perforated drum about 12” in diameter that spun the water out, or most of it.
If the load was unbalanced the whole machine bucked and jumped around making an unholy racket.
It was a few weeks ago. There has been a garble regarding the title, but it’s back now, and hopefully Bill can get it registered.
This is the BMW?
The dryer had manual load balancing.
Remember well the spinner advancing across the kitchen like something out of a horror film.
Yes.
Nice pictures! Where’s the murder?
Tom the Son is home, and I’m not done his brothers’ laundry yet.
The Murder is in Avebury,Wiltshire.
The “Murderer” is Alexander Keiler.
The Victim is buried in the Neolithic stone ring.....
Your job is to decipher the clues and locate the skeleton. :)
(There really was one)
A Bath tub makes a great emergency clothes washer.
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