• Question: How many planets are there in the solar system?

    Asked by Bluebell15 to Kate on 8 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Kate Elliott

      Kate Elliott answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      Supposedly 8 but when I was at school there were 9! I used to remember the order using the pneumonic “My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets” but that doesn’t work now Pluto has been downgraded!

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