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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The cat is on the table
And the silver spoon
Little boy blue
And the man in the moon
When you coming home, Dad?
-— wait, that ain’t quite right.
That’s some stamp licker you got there, C.
Maybe Hopalong Ginsberg can write the title track...
Petition To Remove Air Conditioning From State Department Has Over 1,800 Signatures
He quite a guy, full of trivia questions and anecdotes. He worked for ABC locally, and he said on FB (after the required time) that the reason he was no longer working there was politics. He was conservative, they are liberal.
I had so much hope for him, as he was trying to get a website up and running. What a waste of a good guy. His daughter is no doubt devastated, as they did so much together, and he was so supportive of everything she wanted to do.
Anyway, enough sad stuff.
107, 17%, ENE @ 4 mph, smokey. We still can’t see Mt Charleston through the smoke. *hak-hak; kof-kof; strangle*
I’ll sign it, if I can get through all the ads...
“Models, my dears, become null and void.”
Boy howdy, ain’t THAT the truth! And one need go no further than to inquire at Victoria’s Secret.
That industry needs expiration labeling...
All the same site. Kenilworth in Warwickshire.
Just got back. :)
Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Gardens?
Looks great on Google Earth; they’ve got a nice virtual walk-through of the grounds. Very pretty.
The more we think we’ve made life idiot resistant, the more nature improves the idiot to prove us wrong.
Nothing I click on will take me to the site or give me a download. The Blonde roots are showing again...
Thanks!
That’s the one, HK.
The Google version will however lack the sound track of birds twittering In the trees , and a thousand screaming kids on summer break.
To be truthful,it was a surprise how lovely it was.
Kittens and Tumbleweed, could be a good tune on the way.
singing...
Catnip and clover
Over and over
Catnip and clover
Over and over
Could be!
The cat is on the table
And the silver spoon
Catnap and Clover
And the man in the moon
I had a lie-down with Jake. He had a conniption of affection.
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