Planets

[Heroine of the Dragon]

Can you name all the planets in our Solar Syatem?
If you discovered Planet X, what name would you give it?


-https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/hy ... nd%20Pluto.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Um, maybe. Venus, Mars, Neptune, Jupiter, Earth, Saturn...I forgot Mercury and Uranus. How'd I forget Uranus? It's the oldest joke in the book.

I'd name a planet Vegeta, naturally.

[Booyakasha]

Sure. There's a couple mnemonics. Not all of them still function since Pluto got kicked out. One of them used to go "my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas"-----------now it's "my very educated mother just served us nothing!" (Then you scream maniacal laughter. Because like why wouldn't you.)

If I had to name a planet something, I'd probably pick something out of myth. I think just about everything in Greek and Roman myth has already been used, but there's no reason we couldn't take a page from Norse or Egyptian myth. Maybe Thoth? He was a cool dude. God of the moon and patron of writing, science and mathematics. I'd be down.

[Deku Tree]

Yeah, I know the planets. I might call a new planet Liber, as it would be, presumably, sort of off doing what it wants far from the other planets. Maybe a bit intoxicated.

[Shane]

I remember the word MVEMJSUNP from Saved by the Bell. Still accurate.

[CaptHayfever]

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris.

I would just leave it as "Planet X". That's a cool name.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Booyakasha]

^Oh, stop it. There are eight planets in the solar system. That's the verdict.

Unless you have a surfeit of evidence, you shouldn't include Ceres any more than you should include Halley's Comet. One of the qualifications of being a planet is that the object is of sufficient size and influence to dominate its orbit. Does Ceres dominate its orbit? Is Ceres the only sizable object in the asteroid belt?

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging Ceres as a dwarf planet. That's actually super rad--------here we got a cool rad little artoo buddy-world, here, waiting in the wings. Just don't call it an actual planet. You aren't furthering the cause of science by calling Ceres a planet------‐you're muddying the waters. Don't muddy the waters.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Science is fluid now, Boo.

Seriously though, I miss Pluto being considered a planet. It's like the only educational thing I have nostalgia for.

[CaptHayfever]

^^A dwarf planet is a planet, just like a dwarf human is a human. It's in the name.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Hm, I guess that is logical.

[Deku Tree]

Dwarf humans meet the definition of a human. Dwarf planets don't meet the definition of a planet.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

What is a planet?

Spoiler.

A miserable little pile of secrets!

[Booyakasha]

Oh, get the heck out of town, Cap. "It's right there in the name"? Great. Is a pineapple an apple? Is a water chestnut a chestnut? Is a prairie dog a dog? Quit being a pedantic goober.

[CaptHayfever]

Wait, water chestnuts aren't chestnuts?

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

They contain water, so they're halfway there.