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New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit
space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

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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To: Tax-chick

flower and song? (it’s not plural is it?)


821 posted on 07/24/2016 1:04:26 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NicknamedBob

It’s one or the other..


822 posted on 07/24/2016 1:06:47 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

Singular. It’s the title of a widely-used Spanish hymnal.


823 posted on 07/24/2016 2:06:15 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("How sad for civilization." ~ hal ogen)
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824 posted on 07/24/2016 7:40:46 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

If you stood at the very center of the North Pole, and faced the sun, you’d have morning on your right hand, and evening on your left hand.

This should probably be done as a mental exercise only.


825 posted on 07/24/2016 7:48:36 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Well, if the algoreians are correct, I’d need a boat...


826 posted on 07/24/2016 9:05:32 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Monkey Face; moose07; NicknamedBob; stephenjohnbanker; Tax-chick; Anoreth; ColdOne; Darksheare; ...
FRIENDSHIP

...is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us to see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn.

A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die.

In the course of the years a close friendship will always reveal the shadow in the other as much as ourselves, to remain friends we must know the other and their difficulties and even their sins and encourage the best in them, not through critique but through addressing the better part of them, the leading creative edge of their incarnation, thus subtly discouraging what makes them smaller, less generous, less of themselves.

Friendship is the great hidden transmuter of all relationship: it can transform a troubled marriage, make honorable a professional rivalry, make sense of heartbreak and unrequited love and become the newly discovered ground for a mature parent-child relationship.

The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into the inevitable natural disasters and vulnerabilities found in even the most ordinary existence…

Friendship transcends disappearance: an enduring friendship goes on after death, the exchange only transmuted by absence, the relationship advancing and maturing in a silent internal conversational way even after one half of the bond has passed on.

But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the self nor of the other, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

...

From ‘FRIENDSHIP’ in
CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment
and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.

© David Whyte & Many Rivers Press

https://www.facebook.com/PoetDavidWhyte/photos/a.213444315348246.68208.213407562018588/1497991956893469/?type=3&theater

827 posted on 07/24/2016 9:27:23 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

Thanks for bein’ there all this time, Friends.


828 posted on 07/24/2016 9:27:57 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23
"Thanks for bein’ there all this time, Friends."

.

Solace

“How are things?” They say to me.
A pleasant friendly inquiry.
How can I tell them how I feel?
They did not know my dream was real.

They thought I seemed content until,
A sadness flooded in to fill,
This heart that you had dwelled inside,
And warmed me in the eventide.

They think that with you gone that I,
Can not find solace though I try.
That with an emptiness in me,
There is no room for ecstasy.

A hollow space would fill me up,
Prevent my drinking from the cup?
How can they think that you would go,
And not remain inside me so?

That you are with me even now,
Your hand in mine as we did vow.
We could not ever come apart,
Because we share each other’s heart.

Your laughter rings in silent rooms,
That others think are soundless tombs.
Your smile can brighten every day.
How can they think you’ve gone away?

My father walks beside me still,
He gives advice, and always will.
My mother sings as she once did,
When lifting up the stewpot’s lid.

The life she spent in serving others,
She gently nurtured in my brothers.
Indeed in all who came around,
Each came to find what she had found.

That life alone is but a seed,
Incapable of worthy deed.
But when the light of love shines in,
The roots take hold, the vines to spin,

Entangling all in matted grip,
That even death can not make slip.
The raindrop tears of daily woes,
Are soaked up in the childlike toes.

And winds of passion and of fear,
Which bring destruction circling near,
Are but the welcome cleansing breeze,
To wash the dust from sturdy trees.

No, I am never quite alone.
I’m filled inside with thoughts my own,
Of days spent laughing, having fun,
Relaxing when our work was done.

They see me smile and think that I,
Just reminisce of days gone by.
They cannot know I feel more joy,
Than when I was a little boy.

I knew not then that pain could hurt,
I didn’t know that girls could flirt,
There was a world I couldn’t see,
And now it lives inside of me.

My struggle now is just to show,
The happiness I’ve come to know.
How can I share with them this thrill?
The ones I love are with me still.

NicknamedBob . . . . . March 1, 2004

829 posted on 07/24/2016 10:16:39 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: HKMk23

^5

“And that was this Morning’s Pause for thought with HK, Here on Radio FRee Republic.” (Apologies to BBC Radio 2.)

Written communication is probably the hardest form of communication imaginable when it comes to remaining friends or even civil with each other.
You cannot See the other persons Eyes or tone as they speak.
Each sentence has to be taken a face value. To hang together for best part of fifteen years the way this group has ,is a real achievement.
It is really something to be able to post here.


830 posted on 07/24/2016 10:27:06 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: HKMk23

Good morning, Hk. Nice post!


831 posted on 07/25/2016 2:45:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("How sad for civilization." ~ hal ogen)
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To: moose07; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...

832 posted on 07/25/2016 2:48:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("How sad for civilization." ~ hal ogen)
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To: HKMk23

That, my dear HK, is the essense of the UT. We are privileged to count you among the Denizens of the Habitats. (As opposed the *ahem* Lower Levels.)

Thanks for being here!


833 posted on 07/25/2016 4:03:14 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: NicknamedBob

Very poignant, Bob, thanks,


834 posted on 07/25/2016 4:06:52 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Tax-chick

I’ve sat here looking at that kitteh for 15 minutes, or so, and I finally figured out what is so striking about it: It is pie-eyed. My goodness. What a beauty!

Laundry day again. (She sighs.) And I’m tired going into it. At least today, I don’t have to stay up there for two hours like I would if I were doing sheets and towels.

And in other news, I actually felt a key with my little fingertip as I was typing! YAY!


835 posted on 07/25/2016 4:20:38 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Monkey Face

The kitten was rescued from the street in Bombay, India.

Good morning! DP gave me Windows 10 yesterday, and now I have to refigure out everything. Why can’t I just have my same old stuff always work?

Today’s first activity is Frank and Kathleen’s swimming lessons. After that, we’ll see. Sally and Pat need to find the things they’ll need for camp next week. People always say, “We don’t have (whatever),” when what they mean is they can’t be bothered to look until they find it!


836 posted on 07/25/2016 4:33:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("How sad for civilization." ~ hal ogen)
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To: HKMk23; NicknamedBob; moose07; Monkey Face

Do you ever pick up, say, the cardboard torn off a package of batteries, to find that it’s covered with arcane calculations involving Pi? It was suspiciously near the microwave oven, too.

If I stop posting, assume that Pat got us through the wormhole back to his home planet.


837 posted on 07/25/2016 4:35:24 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("How sad for civilization." ~ hal ogen)
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To: Tax-chick

The packet is empty....
It could be proof that the maths has worked and the batteries are now on their way home! :)


838 posted on 07/25/2016 5:01:14 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: moose07

Also, he might have eaten the batteries. We’ve never been certain of Pat’s power source.


839 posted on 07/25/2016 5:15:32 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("How sad for civilization." ~ hal ogen)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Gefn; Silentgypsy; moose07
good morning.....Amazon offering drone delivery in selected locations....


840 posted on 07/25/2016 5:17:22 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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