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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We have crows in Vegas, but I haven’t seen a raven since I was a short person.
I will need a hair trim when I get home. My hair is flattening out because of its length. I hope it starts to grow back when I get to St George!
Happy Boxing Day to you and your family!
Thankyou Face.
I trust all is well with you?
Am on nights tonight, until new year. Will be on Alaska time. :)
The Beeb have done a whole raft of docudramas over the last couple of years, all of them brilliant.
Lucy Worsley has just done a series on the Tudors from the Ladies point of view, truly entertaining.
*tagline*
Me. That.
Beware....I’m about to cook Chips....
Turn on your stove vent, open the windows!
LoL, have you been spying again? :)
The NSA is everywhere!
I know precisely where they are, (just down the road from me, actually).
Unfortunately, they also know precisely where I am.
It’s annoying to have to behave myself, but somehow I manage.
Lol! I’m at the laundromat. No way I’m fighting through four loads of towels with my crippled washer.
I thought you were getting your Christmas Boxes ready to pass out. It IS Boxing Day after all.. ;-)
I should take some stuff to the Salvation Army.
Back from the laundromat, which was very busy. It’s nice when a local business is a success.
Merry Christmas everyone.
A house full of Grandchildren kept us warm this Christmas.
Sounds like fun! Did you have Norman Rockwell taking pictures for you?
Oh, my! It’s been 20 years since I had authentic chips!
I wish, but I think we got some good ones on our own.
Christmas is made for Grandparents.
Hope everything is good for you Bob.
I'm pretty low-maintenance, so, yeah.
A raven in a poplar tree is not of much concern.
But it is a bleak December after all, and a raven rapping, rapping on your chamber door on a dreary midnight while you are pondering a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore might be of some concern.
Especially if you have a pallid bust of Pallas sitting on a cornice of some type above your door..
You or Tom wouldn't know, perchance, someone named Lenore, would you?
I don't know Lenore, but I know where the guy who wrote about that stuff hangs out.
I've been there a time or two.
At the right time of day, you can hear bells ringing.
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