Demotion of Pluto as a planet

[Jonathan Post]

Post-Pluto mnemonics for the planets

Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan held a competition to
come up with a better mnemonic for the planets' names
in the wake of the decision to demote Pluto
from planet-status. The winner, Josh Mishell's
"My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous
planetariums" is great, as are the runners-up:

    Many Very Earnest Men Just Snubbed Unfortunate
Ninth Planet (Dave Child)

    "My vision, erased. Mercy! Just some underachiever
now." (Delia, as spoken by Pluto discoverer Clyde
Tombaugh)

    Most vexing experience, mother just served us
nothing! (Bart Baxter)



On 8/26/06, Gene Smith <genewardsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/25/06, William Rex Marshall <w.r.marshall at actrix.co.nz> wrote:
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> > From: "Gene Smith" <genewardsmith at gmail.com>
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>  But Xena is a
> > full-fledged planet!
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> Not according to the IAU:
> http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0603/index.html
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> I know. My comment was about what the definition says.
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> If you use Steven Soter's "planetary discriminant" you get the bizarre
> result that Earth and Venus are more planet-like than Jupiter or Saturn, and
> that Neptune is the least planet-like of the major planets.
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> Here's a Wikipedia article I just did:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_system_objects_by_planetary_discriminant
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> Here's an integer sequence, the number from the Sun in order of planetary
> discriminant: 3, 2, 5, 6, 4, 1, 7, 8. Here's another, order in  terms of
> mass by decending planetary discriminant: 5, 6, 1, 2, 7, 8, 3, 4.
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