You know, I was watching a special about that on the Science Channel in which grade schoolers were protesting the move. They like Pluto. I feel so bad for them :(
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Peanuts Chopped X-trafine?
They just ruined a long-standing tradition. Pesky scientists!
NINE WHAT? YOU SEE WHAT THEY'VE DONE? (oh, well, i guess it could be 'served us nine people in a group' something, but...I think it'd need to be "we" there.)
stupid astronomers, messing up the status quo, again.
(first they were all "o hay guys the earth's not flat" and now it's Pluto.)
They had an astrologer on NPR last night who assured us that the important thing isn't the scientific classification, but rather whether astrologers feel they can get meaningful symbolism out of the thing.
Yesterday the Herald Tribune had a funny editorial that was all, "It's okay, guys! Just think of Pluto as a REBEL OUTCAST to that persnickety planetary clique!"
Well, now all the astrologers quoted in the tabloids around the New Year have a reason for why their predictions about the fate of various celebrities never seem to come true: Pluto was messing it all up!
Proving that I'm a freak who finds it easier to memorize the thing itself than the mnemonic, it was only while reading the replies here that I realized that although I know the order of the planets, I couldn't remember the mnemonic I was taught.
I just knew it had the location of the asteroid belt in, and could be rearranged depending on whether Pluto was inside or outside Neptune's orbit that year -- which actually makes it make more sense if it can drop the P and be a mnemonic for a Pluto-less order of planets. On the other hand, if it doesn't get to keep Pluto, why the heck do the asteroids qualify? Heh.
Google turns up a close enough aproximation to what I learned to remind me:
Mom Visits Every Monday And Just Stays Until Noon, Period. or Mom Visits Every Monday And Just Stays Until Practically Noon.
I think it actually was - Dad's been making jokes about suing them for years, and that was his rationale.
This has been sitting in the back of my head for a while now, and the reasoning really doesn't make sense. If "clearing its orbit" is one of the requirements for planet status, and Pluto was demoted for never having obliterated Neptune... shouldn't Neptune *also* be demoted for never having obliterated *Pluto*? Doesn't work.
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Here's a chart (http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/science/orderingplanets.htm) for creating mnemonics. Maybe it'll be useful :)
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You know, I was watching a special about that on the Science Channel in which grade schoolers were protesting the move. They like Pluto. I feel so bad for them :(
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Peanuts Chopped X-trafine?
They just ruined a long-standing tradition. Pesky scientists!
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NINE WHAT? YOU SEE WHAT THEY'VE DONE?
(oh, well, i guess it could be 'served us nine people in a group' something, but...I think it'd need to be "we" there.)
stupid astronomers, messing up the status quo, again.
(first they were all "o hay guys the earth's not flat" and now it's Pluto.)
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but that was one of my favorite senshi.
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Or you could think of it as gaining Sailor Pluto, Sailor Ceres and Sailor 2003 UB313.
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I sense contest potential!
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So! No worries. :)
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Rock falls, Scorpio dies?
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"WHO YOU CALLING SO SHORT A GUINEA PIG COULD STEP ON ME?!!!"
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big-assfetching rings LAUGH at your dwarf planet!no subject
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I blame Pluto. It was transitioning in my fifth house when I caused the Yaoi Ronsou of 2006!
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I just knew it had the location of the asteroid belt in, and could be rearranged depending on whether Pluto was inside or outside Neptune's orbit that year -- which actually makes it make more sense if it can drop the P and be a mnemonic for a Pluto-less order of planets. On the other hand, if it doesn't get to keep Pluto, why the heck do the asteroids qualify? Heh.
Google turns up a close enough aproximation to what I learned to remind me:
Mom Visits Every Monday And Just Stays Until Noon, Period.
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Mom Visits Every Monday And Just Stays Until Practically Noon.
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So now I need to figure out what network that was and write them a very stern letter.
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This has been sitting in the back of my head for a while now, and the reasoning really doesn't make sense. If "clearing its orbit" is one of the requirements for planet status, and Pluto was demoted for never having obliterated Neptune... shouldn't Neptune *also* be demoted for never having obliterated *Pluto*? Doesn't work.
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