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New Dwarf Planet Discovered In Outer Solar System (seeker.com)
astroengine quotes a report from Seeker: Astronomers have found another Pluto-like dwarf planet located about 20 times farther away from the sun than Neptune. The small planet, dubbed 2015 RR245, is estimated to be about 435 miles in diameter and flying in an elliptical, 700-year orbit around the sun. At closest approach, RR245 will be about 3.1 billion miles from the sun, a milestone it is expected to next reach in 2096. At its most distant point, the icy world is located about 7.5 billion miles away. It was found by a joint team of astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea, Hawaii, in images taken in September 2015 and analyzed in February. The discovery was announced on Monday in the Minor Planet Electronic Circular.
Football or soccer?
In most of the world these two are synonyms, with the latter being virtually unknown. Handegg is an almost entirely american thing.
And both need to die. I have enough of shouting drunks spilling out of pubs (there's a pub right outside my house), cities demolished by hooligans, mainstream news spammed out, most of tuition money (US univs) or taxes (here) being wasted. When I was a kid, on 95% of phys edu lessons we were given a ball and put on the pitch, with fatties and the likes of me being expected to not get in the way -- with obvious effects for my health. Now imagine all that money and effort put to some actual good use, like, say, actually promoting public health instead of circenses for the plebs.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.