Pluto, Soon to Orbit in a Less Important Circle?
By Adriane Quinlan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 17, 2006

For some generations, it's "My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles." For others, it might be "Mother Very Easily Made Jane Stop Using Nail Polish," or "My Very Enormous Monster Just Sucked Up Nine Planets."

We discovered such mnemonic devices in grade school to learn the planetary order of things. And since 1930, these silly little sentences have ended in P for Pluto, that planet on the edge, the bad boy fronting the darkness beyond telescopes.

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