Can't remember the 11 planets? 4th-grader offers help

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  1. Dark_Convoy, Feb 29, 2008
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  2. Deefuzz, Feb 29, 2008
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    Wow, thats two new planets since last I was in school.
     
  3. Omnibus Prime, Feb 29, 2008
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    They go to eleven?

    *insert Spinal Tap joke here*
     
  4. Beastbot X, Feb 29, 2008
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    ..The heck? Pluto's a planet again?! (Yes, they call them "dwarf planets", but that means they're not planets, and there's a lot more planets than 11 if you include dwarf planets.) Ugh, can't they make up their slaggin' minds?
     
  5. Jarodimus, Feb 29, 2008
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    Wait, they count Ceres now? WTF?
     
  6. Keiichitron, Feb 29, 2008
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    Ceres used to be a planet back in like the 1800s heh
     
  7. jourdo, Feb 29, 2008
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    That is what I was thinking.

    Back in my day, there were only 9 planets and we liked it that way!

    *waves angry fist at the whipper-snappers*
     
  8. Caterwaul, Feb 29, 2008
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    ...I echo Beastbot. Huh?? All the hoopla over Pluto no longer counting as a planet...and then they go and add two others in addition?
     
  9. Lance Halberd, Feb 29, 2008
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    With slight editing, that mnemonic device could also work for the 8 non-dwarf planets:

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  10. Brandon, Feb 29, 2008
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    Wow I didn't realize we have 11 planets now, apparently.
     
  11. Foster, Feb 29, 2008
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    Ceres and Eris can lick my anus.
     
  12. pscoop, Feb 29, 2008
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    WTF? Has it been this long since my college Astronomy class?
     
  13. Magelite, Feb 29, 2008
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    Yep. Now I've off to a class on the biosphere of planet Vadus 8 and the astropolitics of the andromeda galaxy.

    Anyway, I thought it was 12 planets? 8 Planets and 4 dwarf planets?
     
  14. onesock, Feb 29, 2008
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    Ceres and Eris?

    What is this madness?

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  15. NemesisBruticus, Feb 29, 2008
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    Eleven? The Hell?
     
  16. TILALLR1, Feb 29, 2008
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    You know the problem with coming up with a new term like "dwarf planet" is that they probably are going to find alot more of them in the future. The region of space beyond Neptune is relatively large and extremely difficult to chart. We may never fully know what is out there. Apparently Japan has also just claimed today to have discovered a REAL planet measuring 30 percent to 70 percent of the Earth's mass. Planet 'X' people. Read article below:

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=45311&sectionid=3510208

    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gD2yjCVCevAgLFa_AXH9m51MrqCg

    P.S. I say stick to the major 8 and be done with it. Unless they discover a 'REAL' Planet. Non of the dwarf planet crap.
     
  17. Autovolt 127, Feb 29, 2008
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    Who are the two new planets.
     
  18. Sol Fury, Feb 29, 2008
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    Ceres and Eris. They're both "dwarf" planets.
     
  19. Omegatron, Feb 29, 2008
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    "...and I thought hey I believe, I believe, but now I know that I was wrong."


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