Nine Planets
A common English-language mnemonic for many years was "My Very Energetic (or Excellent, etc.) Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" (for Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto). Other mnemonics include "My Very Easy Method Just Shows Us Nine Planets", "My Very Energetic Mother Jumps Skateboards Under Nana's Patio" or "Mary's violet eyes make Johnny stay up nights plenty", and "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets". However, these mnemonics were made obsolete by the 2006 definition of planet, which reclassified Pluto (as well as Ceres and Eris) as a dwarf planet.
Read more about this topic: Planetary Mnemonic
Famous quotes containing the word planets:
“I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)