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Congratulations to Pluto for keeping its planetary status and a hearty welcome to the three new planet of our solar system!
Provided the IAU adopts the recently released proposals, we now have 12 planets, and most likely many more on the way. Besides the current 9, Charon is now a planet. Charon used to be considered Pluto's satellite, but since they are about the same size and orbit a common point between them, they are now a binary planet system. Xena becomes the farthest planet of the solar system (Ok, technically it's still called "2003 UB313" but that's a crappy name, and the guy who discovered it calls it Xena, so I do too. :P ). The planetary order (and all of the mnemonic rhymes) gets thrown off by adding Ceres to the list of planets in between Mars & Jupiter. All of you get to work on coming up with new rhymes for kids to remember the planetary order!
Our new planet list is:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Ceres
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Charon
Xena
Again, welcome to the family! (You know, this might explain why so many astrology charts are wrong - they haven't been taking all the planets into account.)
Provided the IAU adopts the recently released proposals, we now have 12 planets, and most likely many more on the way. Besides the current 9, Charon is now a planet. Charon used to be considered Pluto's satellite, but since they are about the same size and orbit a common point between them, they are now a binary planet system. Xena becomes the farthest planet of the solar system (Ok, technically it's still called "2003 UB313" but that's a crappy name, and the guy who discovered it calls it Xena, so I do too. :P ). The planetary order (and all of the mnemonic rhymes) gets thrown off by adding Ceres to the list of planets in between Mars & Jupiter. All of you get to work on coming up with new rhymes for kids to remember the planetary order!
Our new planet list is:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Ceres
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Charon
Xena
Again, welcome to the family! (You know, this might explain why so many astrology charts are wrong - they haven't been taking all the planets into account.)