Aug 16
The International Astronomical Union votes on a new definition of a planet on August 24 of this year. If this definition is accepted, the list of planets grows from nine to at least twelve.
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Ceres
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Charon
2003 UB313 a.k.a. Xena
If accepted, though, other bodies would qualify. How about planet Sedna?
In case you think that astrologers will have to change, many of them already believe that there are twelve planets.
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- pinakidion: what rock said
- Rock: “Is Pinakidion ever going to post again?”
- salguod: Is that an answer to a question that I missed?
- xray342: How’s this for cryptic? $ echo ‘pinakidion’ | md5 16da6556b9ba8a411a6f4251591eae2b
- Velocio: “Despite my best efforts, you have learned about evil from me, in part, because you have seen it in me.” Wow, tears....
My wife pointed out the True Horror of all of this: we’ll have to come up with a new mnemonic… This could be worse than the Metric System…
Not that bad, how about:
My
Very
Economical
Mother
Can
Just
Serve
Us
Nine
Potato
Chips,
Xavier
I like it waxtablet!