Update on the Planet Situation

[miss_yt]

So, apparently we now have twelve planets in our solar system: Ceres, formerly considered a large asteroid, residing between Earth and Jupiter; Charon, formerly considered to be a moon of Pluto but in truth engaged in a sort of roundabout with it; and Xena, out beyond Pluto.

Here's an article with a chart showing the new planets.

I hope they don't decide to add anything else before this settles down: I can remember three extra planets but too many more than that would be taxing.

Now...how do we develop a mnemonic device to remember these new planets? Especially since the last one starts with an X? Unless the mnemonic is based on Xena: Warrior Princess.

Comments

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

that's true, but they're different words.

and there are asteroids named Hermes, Aphrodite, and Poseidon, or so Google tells me, so it's not unheard of to use both the Greek and Roman names for the same deity to name different celestial objects. (although those asteroids aren't big enough to become planets under the new definition.)