Taken three minutes ago. Kenilworth Castle.
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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“Sons if the Pioneers” They were famous for western songs, but they were also, Sons of the Utah Pioneers, which is an actual association. Like the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, an association I am proud to be a member of. Card-carrying, actually! :o])
....kitten delivery drone....
Now there’s a thought.......
I’m having enough difficulty living a single life.
Got any 8s?
Go fish...
Really? Look at your post number again...
Taken three minutes ago. Kenilworth Castle.
I used them all, so I don’t have any left. Stick around for #1888 and ask me again...
Oh, wow. I think that’s in my genealogy...
Ah!
Yours and mine both.
Via John of Ghent. :)
If you need more I’ll FB them.
Very pretty. There used to be a brand of dog food called “Kennelworth.”
Well, at the quantum level, science is only concerned with probabilities and not predictability. It’s impossible (as far as we know now) to predict anything exactly at that scale.
At our scale, though, most everything that scientists are concerned about is predictable. Gravity doesn’t act randomly, electromagnetism doesn’t act randomly, the chemical properties of matter are not random, genetics are not random, etc. Now, when you combine some of those fundamentals into a system that is complex enough, you will see the appearance of randomness emerge, but it isn’t truly random, it’s just an artifact of the complexity of the system. That’s what they came up with chaos theory to account for.
If we could construct perfect models of complex systems at the macro scale, we should see there is no real randomness, but we simply can’t do that mathematically for most systems because we can’t solve the equations.
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Are all three pics of the same castle? So I can save them, of course.
I think you mean “stupid.”
See? That was a challenge, right there...
(Thanks.)
Welcome.
I could go to sleep now, but I have to do other things.
I’m going to go sit with the peeps until the mail comes. There is still smoke in the air so my house is full of it. Ugh. I definitely need a new filter. Maybe I’ll go buy one early tomorrow. Right now is not the time.
I just found out that my favorite local meteorologist died last night. A combination of hairy cell leukemia, West Nile virus and kidney failure. He had been ill for three weeks. It just crushes me. He was so much fun to watch. I used to email him with questions that he would then explain on the air. He left a daughter of about 14, I think, if I followed his posts on FB correctly.
Dang.
Oh, that’s too bad. I just got back from Walmart. It’s very hot here.
Name him, ping him.
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