My Very Earnest Mother...is confused.

[beetiger]

I know I've got a number of school teachers and kids' librarians on my friends list, so I thought maybe you'd know. What's the order they teach for the planets these days? Is Pluto still in there, and if so, do I recall right that its orbit is inside Neptune's right now and so is the order switched? Is Eris in there? Is there a new mnemonic?

Rhys asked me yesterday and I realized I wasn't quite sure.

Thanks.

Comments

[lapis-lazuli.livejournal.com]

I've been out of the loop too long to answer, but the question made me remember, at Scholastic, rushing to take Pluto out of the Solar System box set... and then rushing to put it back in again.

[varjohaltia.livejournal.com]

Hey! You could have had the Solar System Box Set, and for an extra fee the add-on kit for Pluto et alia. That way kids in the rich schools would have them all, and public schools could settle for just the basic planets.

Ahem, it's Friday afternoon and my latest week among higher education getting gutted with budget cuts is getting to me. Sorry.