Nine or Eleven Planets?

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A young girl out of Montana (whoop whoop!) won National Geographic’s Planet Contest by coming up with a mnemonic to remember the planets’ order. “My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.”

Okay, so I just happen to know the order of the planets by memory and I was stumped when I got to “Carpet.” What planet starts with a C? Well, back in 2006, the International Astronomical Union classed Pluto as a dwarf planet, along with Ceres and Eris. Now we have eleven planets in our solar system. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Eris.

Lisa Loeb recorded a song based off this mnemonic and I just listened to it – now it’s totally stuck in my head! It’s a cute song and an unforgettable way to remember the order of the planets from the sun.

Listen to the song at National Geographic
Take a look at all the planets

By the way… three other objects in our solar system may become classified as dwarf planets: Sedna, Orcus, and Quaoar.

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2 Comments

  1. Carol
    Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    i clicked on the link to look at the planets and I noticed that instead of opening another window it used my existing one that I’m reading your blog with. So instead of clicking around on the new page, I just went “back” so I could get back to your website without losing track of it and having to click “back” eighty times. I like it better when it opens a whole new window for me. Can you arrange that?

  2. Jenn
    Friday, July 18, 2008 at 9:03 am

    The stupid web-design community freaks out about forcing a new browser window (or tab) to open. I’m on the fence about it. I personally like to choose if I want a link to open in a new window. If the website does it for me, I just close the original window.

    But… lots of internet users want this feature. I think it’s become a web standard just because SO many websites do it that way. Just like the standard feature of a website’s logo linking back to their homepage. People get used to it.

    So, Carol… since you are the majority of my reading community, I will gladly arrange for this blog to open a new window for external links.

    By the way… what did you think about this post? Did you listen to the song?

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