Astronomy
- Main sequence of stellar classification: Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now (Smack): (O B A F G K M R N S).
- Order of Planets from the Sun
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- My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
- Many Very Educated Men Justify Stealing Unique Ninth
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- My Very Earnest Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
- My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
- My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies
- Mary Visits Every Monday Just Stays Until Noon Period
- In Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein includes 'prices' which represent the mean AU (Astronomical Unit - mean distance of the Earth from the Sun = 93 million miles = 149 million km) of all the planets from the sun:
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- Mercury $0.39
- Venus $0.72
- Earth $1.00
- Mars $1.50
- Asteroids (assorted prices, unimportant)
- Jupiter $5.20
- Saturn $9.50
- Uranus $19.00
- Neptune $30.00
- Pluto $39.50
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Famous quotes containing the word astronomy:
“It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifference to death.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a “fixed” heaven.”
—Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist. Islam and Democracy, ch. 9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (Trans. 1992)