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 saw a tumbleweed get hit by a truck on the freeway!
They are only a barrier to the first tumbleweeds to arrive there.
It's very like some depictions of a zombie attack, and for a very good reason; tumbleweeds are no longer alive.
Think about it; desiccated and uprooted, they are no longer alive, except that in among the tangled branches, there may be seeds, which are the purpose of its journeying.
(Time to cue up the Sons of the Pioneers.)
Very interesting commentary. Why is everything automatically compared to models which are predictable?
Where do we attribute something to a random occurence? Life, it seems to me is preety much affected by random actions. In this instance models become null and void.
Models, my dears, become null and void. Reflect upon that imagery.
Also, why do people let their cats sit on the table? Entropy. Entropy is everywhere.
Thanks! It was the only one I had left of the glam shots, and it’s not my favorite, but I don’t even know the name of the place or if it’s still in business. It was one of the first places (locally) to use a digital camera so we could choose the proofs on the spot.
If I knew who it was, I would check with them to see if they still had the digital file.
Nully, ping to #884!
Are you leading a double life?
Is that a beret? That floofy squee is having fun in it, for sure!
I’m pretty sure it’s a felt cat-hutch.
I like the face on that little squee, but on the table??? The cat is on the TABLE?
Argh! It’s bad enough having cat hair on my clothes, but I draw the line about having it on my dishes and in my food! (Why do people DO that? she asks herself.)
Whatever it is, that kitteh is having fun in it. I can tell by the eyes! :o]
They’re so used to being ignored by their children that they’ve given up on the catz, too.
“Drifting with the Tumbleweeds”
Sounds like a Blue Grass Group. :)
“The Cat is on the Table.....”
*rumage, rumage *
Ah, right. The Air drop is tonight. Understood. :)
That’s what the Internet was designed for, pictures of kittens.
Morning All.
Today I’m at Kenilworth.
You know the usual historical type stuff. :)
Enjoy the scenery!
Hope it's not one of those drones that brings a litter of kittens.
They wish. But they did once sing with Roy Rogers. Crooners all, but very mellow.
That must be it. On a chair AT the table, but not on it.
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My attention span is about a half inch long this morning. I stopped this at the end of the first sentence, went up to unlock to door, only to find Jim in there, and then grabbed my list and headed to Walmart. *sigh*
My bad.
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