"Mnemonic for 11 planets sure beats "Roy G. Biv," "Homes"

"Maryn Smith, a 10-year-old fourth-grader at Riverview Elementary School in Great Falls, Mont., knows that there are 11 planets in the solar system. In order of increasing distance from the sun, they are, of course, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Eris."

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/02/.../machinist/blog


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