Breaking news from Prague, via the QC Times: Pluto, the celestial body which is either just beyond or just inside Neptune, depending on when you ask, is no longer a planet. The cartoon dog of the same name will remain a cartoon dog.
In grade school, I was taught the following phrase to remember the planets:
My
Very
Educated
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nine
Pizzas
I always thought nine pizzas seemed a little wasteful. Thankfully, science has stepped in and made that phrase obselete. Instead of NP, now we just have N. The two options that occured to me:
Nectarines
Nutmeg
Do you have any ideas?
KL
5 comments:
Now, I know I'm a conservative but how can our society have degenerated to the point of losing planets? Isn't that a lot of change for any given millenium?
"Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's."
A friend asked this question: What about Neptune?
P.S.: If I go to klsnow.blogspot.com, I see nothing after the 8/21 post.
I'm actually having that problem too, but when I refresh it goes away.
Must be a blogger thing.
KL
I was hoping they'd upgrade us to 12 planets (adding Ceres, Charon and Xena) rather than downgrading us to 8... Oh well. I guess Kuiper Belt Objects and asteroids are simply KBO's and asteroids.
PICKLES!!
My
Very
Eager
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nine
Pickles
Was the way we learned it in school
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