My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos

We are now introduced to the astronomical term "dwarf planet." So far, these are Ceres (and why not Vesta?), Pluto, and "Xena," and I suppose a couple of known Kuiper Belt objects to be named later.

So, in order of distance from the Sun: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos; Cereal Pleases Xena?

Ibram has the smartest Mom here...

from childhood memories:

"Mother Very Thoughtfully Made a Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest." --Have Space Suit Will Travel

the T is Terra, and the lowercase a is the asteroid belt


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mnemonics

Love the Heinlein, but I really favor the new version on the same wiki page:

My Very Exotic Mistress Just Showed Up Naked

The new definition is all screwed up.

IAU wrote:

RESOLUTION 5A
The IAU therefore resolves that "planets" and other bodies in our Solar System be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:

(1) A "planet" {1} is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape{2} , (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.

(3) All other objects{3} except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar-System Bodies".
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{1}The eight planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
{2}An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories.
{3}These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.

Number (1)(c) is a really sloppy rule. It's what they used to eliminate Pluto, because it crosses orbits with Neptune but hasn't cleared Neptune. can you look at it from Neptune's perspective too? Doesn't Neptune cross paths with Pluto, and yet didn't assimilate or clear Pluto? That means Neptune isn't a planet. Doesn't Earth have a moon? That mean's we don't live on a planet. Don't the outer planets have rings of debris floating around them? That means they aren't planets. Even if you argue that those things don't count because they are in orbit around the planets, what about asteroids? Ever seen a shooting star? That's an object the Earth hadn't cleared from its path. There are thousands of Near Earth Objects. According to (1)(c), we shouldn't be a planet either.

The astronomers needed to have at least on lawyer there at their meeting to point out all the loopholes in their new rule. I'm a little embarrassed for them. It's sloppy. I bet we could have come up with better definitions here on the Cellar.

The way you wear you sublimate.
The way you start with 'P'.
The memory of all that
Oh, no. They can't take that away from me.
The way your moon just beams.
The way you orbit off-key.
The way you haunt my dreams.
No, no. They can't take that away from me.
We may never, never meet it's said
On the astral road to love.
But I'll always, always keep
The memory of...
The way you hold your nodes.
Your frozen atmoshpere.
The way you changed my life.
No, no. They can't take that away from me.
No, they can't take that away from me

Frankly IAU, I don't give a damn. :p

Why this old sun? I only orbit that when I don't care what I look like.

Damn. And I liked Pluto.

No no no no no...... there is only one planet. The Bible says so. We are changing all the text books to get rid of all this unverified hypothetical scientific heresy. It's plain that the "scientific community" is not even in agreement..... :ipray:

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Took me 3 posts before I finally figured out just what the hell you people were going on about.
Mickey's going to be awfully upset when he hears about Pluto being put down:sniff:

Mickey, in divorce court: "Your honor, the issue isn't that Ms. Mouse is insane, it's that she's unfathful. That's what I meant when I said she was 'fucking Goofy'."

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How come Pluto was like a "dog" dog and Goofy wore pants and was like a "human" dog? I wouldn't take 10 Goofys for a Pluto!

Is Goofy a dog? I never knew what he was but he always looked sinister to me. Like he would lure you into a dark alley.

Goofy definitely has homocidal tendencies. Or would that be canicidal?

Shawnee123 wrote:

Goofy definitely has homocidal tendencies. Or would that be canicidal?

Homocidal? Or homicidal? Yes, it does matter.

Shawnee123 wrote:

How come Pluto was like a "dog" dog and Goofy wore pants and was like a "human" dog?

Clothes make the ...erm...man. Pants can't be that important; Donald didn't wear them. But now the Kool-Ade pitcher does.

It can't be *just* the pants...Brian on Family Guy gets by with just a collar.




Most of the time.