My Very Educated Mother Cruelly Just Served Us Nine Putrid, Cheesy Xylophones

[metaphorge]

Our solar system has twelve planets?

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[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

My Very Educated Mother Cruelly Just Served Us Nine Putrid, Cheesy Yo-yos.

...what, you wanted to name the last one something other than Yuggoth?

[the-van-dyck.livejournal.com]

No,it has 8 planets and 4 plutons.

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought it was eight planets, three plutons, and a large planet-esque asteroid.

[roadriverrail.livejournal.com]

As the_van_dyck noted, astronomers want to distinguish between a planet and a pluton. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton), though, a pluton is a kind of planet. Go figure.

Also, The Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton) claims that as many as 50 plutons would join the list, so if you think of a pluton as being a planet, our solar system has dozens of planets.

I don't know what difference it makes...the stuff is already out there. Any attachment to a specific number of planets is just our tried-and-true lust for older scientists and phlosophers. It's like claiming we have five senses.

[adityanath.livejournal.com]

It's fine with me, but only if they name the new ones Mickey, Goofy and Daffy.

[roadriverrail.livejournal.com]

One of them is nicknamed Xena...is that good enough?

[the-van-dyck.livejournal.com]

I would have prefer Huey Deuey and Louie.

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

I think your acronym would be great to teach in schools, though: when we learned the earlier version of it, I hated the little song that went with it and such...This one would be a great angsty grunge number instead of that stupid kiddie song from the 60s...

[veil.livejournal.com]

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[titos2cents.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to figure out how Pluto's moon made the list - aren't there a good many moons out there that would also qualify?

And the cat ran away with the moon...

[tudgedelta.livejournal.com]

One of the implications of this new scheme is that our Moon may one day be considered a planet:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060817_moon_planet.html