Posted August 16, 2006 The Beeb sum it up very well. It seems we have to re-learn that mnemonic! My Very Elegant Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Porcupines Add Charon and UB313! lol! My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets. Shabba. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 This just complicates the lives of primary school kids learning about the solar system. The classic teaching system of creating a pneumonic will a whole lot harder. Lets see , My Very Excited Mate Can Just Shut Up Now, Plus Choke 2 (woo even got 2003 UB 313 in at the end as well). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 MyVery Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets. Shabba. You amuse me :p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 I'd like to thank the SAS file-o-fax. [survive At School ] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 I never used a rhyme to remember the planets, I just remembered them. I want a pink planet in our solar system. Maybe we should spray paint mars? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 If SAS didn't teach me anything I think I'd have relied on Pinbot from the NES MVEMJSUNP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 The problem with science is they think they know everything then something new comes along that completly changes things. Remember long ago "science" said the Earth was flat, and was the center of the universe. When the "Big Bang theory" was made a lot of scientists said it was utter nonsense. When it was discovered that every galaxy has a supermassive blackhole at the centre science was surprised cuz they thought it wasn't possible. Fact is we know alot but not everthing, there's always gonna be something that changes something. But as for these "new" planets, i'm fed up with all now, like this "Ceres" one, between Mars and Jupiter, how come it wasn't "found" long ago? Its prolly just a large asteriod, i mean it is in the asteriod belt frack sake. I'm just gonna stick with the 8 planets i knew of as a kid Was your childhood in the 1920s? :p (Pluto is the ninth planet discovered in 1930) pluto = not a planet by the standards in place now. and this crap about extra planets isn't yet set in stone. going under the vote. like mokong says, i'll stick with the 8 planets i was taught ta very much. on a side note, if you do count pluto as the 9th planet, it isn't always the 9th due to neptune's elliptical orbit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 They dicovered a planet not so long ago named "Sedna", where's that gone, eh? Many Vile Earthlings Munch Jam Sandwiches Under Newspaper Piles. That's the one I remember Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 Exactly. I can't understand why they would commit to these scientific endeavours when they could be posting on the internet. That's not what I said at all. I was just saying that they shouldn't say "know" when most likely they will find new evidence and say that now they "know that it is this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 Take the Pluto argument. One of the arguments against it was that it had an eliptical orbit and was possibly not a body formed from the material of our star, therefore not a planet, but some kind of massive asteroid. It's this shift which could form the basis to potential new theories about how material is formed, distributed and collected by the sun during the birth of a system. i understand ur points, and i'm sure the scientists think they know but surely how a system is formed is theory. i doubt we actually know an awful lot about up there, and that much of it is based on theories on top of theories, after all we're not up there yet... really. so for me all the arguing going on within the scientific community is mute to me, as i'm a strong believer that we know squat about what's in (and life in) space. I want a pink planet in our solar system. Maybe we should spray paint mars? i think i know some "people" who don't seem to like that idea very much... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 I'm a primary school teacher, and my class is doing the solar system in September. I think I'll just stick with teaching them the classic nine planets. Besides, I can't be bothered to change my wall display now.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 Seriously, why is this debate even going on? The simplest option would be to just drop pluto as a planet. Whats wrong with: 4 Inner planets (mercury, venus, earth, mars) Asteroid belt (inclueding ceres) 4 outer planets (saturn, juipiter, unranus, neptune) Kupiter belt objects (including pluto and xena) Ceres has been known about for ages, and yes it is just a very large asteroid. It has more of a claim to being a planet than pluto (at leas there used to be a planet where the asteroid belt was). And the idea of making Channon a planets is just idiotic, if it wasnt orbiing pluto it would be completely ignored. Its just a rocky ball of ice. There making too big a fuss of the fact pluto and channon orbit each other. Whats wrong with just dropping pluto? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 technically there wasn;'t a planet where the asteroid belt is, that material wasn't allowed to form into a planet thanks to the distruptive effects of jupiters gravity.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 Whats wrong with just dropping pluto? because mickey and minnie would report you to the rspca Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 The Pluto moon thing is a difficult one...they orbit each other and the Sun...they are both moons & planets ...there u go... meaning that there are still the same amount as before of moons & planets if the other 2 'new' ones arent counted as Pluto = 1/2planet 1/2 moon, and it's lil bum buddy is the same:heh: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 Why give it such a dumb name? Call it planet zog ffs. Seriously, 2003 UB40? just name it properly, not some astronomy garbage Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 Why give it such a dumb name? Call it planet zog ffs.Seriously, 2003 UB40? just name it properly, not some astronomy garbage 2003 UB_313 is just a standard name given to rocks found (with different numbers), until the have a proper name. I believe that "Persephone" was/is the most likely candidate for the name. ("Xena" is just a nickname from the discoverer) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 Why give it such a dumb name? Call it planet zog ffs.Seriously, 2003 UB40? just name it properly, not some astronomy garbage maybe they were drinking some "red red wine" when they named it.... apologies... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 17, 2006 I don't think Pluto should be considered a planet. If they accept Pluto as a planet, won't they also have to accept all the other pluto-like objects in the Kuiper Belt, and that could increase the number of accepted planets in our solar system by a fairly large amount. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
