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 have noted of late periodically that happens here. I find that service host is hogging about 50% of cpu cycles and s l o w s everything down. The specific process ID leads to windows update, and doesn't seem to go away on its own. When I manually stop windows update service the cpu hogging ceases.
When it is acting this way manually running Windoze Update never completes - it stays in 'searching for updates' forever and ever, amen.. It seems that if I change my WindozeUpdate settings to automaticly download and install, I have no problems but when I go to 'let me decide' the issue happens. Since MS has talen the ability to decide away in WinTenTen it wouldn't surprise me if this is a 'new' featureannoyance being crammed down Win7 users throats.
I don't have the WinTenTen machine on often enough to note whether the same malady occurs there but Win10 is always set for autoupdate with no user decisions necessary. Or allowed..
Nor have I bothered to research the issue to see what the MS gurus say about it. (If anyone has dealt with this and beaten it into submission let me know. ;-)
That’s been my experience, pretty much, since getting this. If I could afford it, I would get a laptop with Win XP on it, just because I hate the fact that MS will “update” in spite of what I can do.
I’m fed up with MS and all their *ahem* machinations. I will try to learn Linux when my brain works better.
I am going to bed, now. My body is tired and my brain threatens to quit functioning like it should. See you all tomorrow!
You don’t really need to “learn Linux” if you never open the DOS command line. You may have to get used to different programs to do the same things. For example, you can’t get MS Write on Linux but you can get Open Office.
So, you’re saying your brain should threaten to quit funcitoning and it’s doing that properly?
Earlier today someone in our chat system wrote:
“Go ahead and restart Rafael”
Rafael doesn’t have a restart button and I’m still not sure whether what the writer wanted to happen has happened.
I have made it clear that I don’t have a restart button. If you want to clear out my cache and get me to begin again you need copious amounts of alcohol or a frying pan.
I don’t prefer the frying pan.
Oy don’t know that!
Aiiiiiiiiiigh
Since OpenOffice is all I’ve ever used (I learned DOS and WordPerfect 5.0, plus Lotus 1.2.3 years ago, but that was when my brain worked) so I will see about Linux. And then there’s Firefox. Maybe I’ll check that one out first. Just research it and maybe take it for a test drive.
At any rate, I’m so fed up with MS it’s not funny.
That floofy need to be brushed. What a fun job that would be!
I got a text and a phone call within 30 minutes of heading for the boudoir, both saying a prescription was ready.
A few days ago, I used my artificial tears and put them down and I can’t find the bottle now. My eyes get so dry that I need to add the drops at least once a day. I will have to get another while I’m waiting for that one to show up. As it will.
I shall name him Hagrid.
Perfect choice! Good morning!
He looks like a Hagrid, doesn’t he?
Or Tom.
Tom has that much hair?
Ummm. Hogworts. And maybe Hogworth as well.
Power is out, should be back on by noon, no coffee. Grrrrr.
I like firefox, I don’t like typing on a phone.
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