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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Arseen on April 24, 2023, 07:38:15 PM

Title: OMG! Schools lied to us bit older folks.
Post by: Arseen on April 24, 2023, 07:38:15 PM
Weren't you too taught in school that planetary order in Solar System is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Just remembered to check recollection I had and indeed 1979 - 1999 Pluto was closer than Neptune.

Oh I'm gonna have my teachers have it when I next time bump into then (few are still alive).
Title: Re: OMG! Schools lied to us bit older folks.
Post by: TDIRunner on April 25, 2023, 12:23:52 AM
Thought for sure this was a bot post.  ;)

Pluto and Neptune trade places since Pluto's orbit is so oddly shaped.  I remember learning that in school.  As a kid I remember thinking that was awesome because potentially they could collide.  I was very disappointed when I later learned how that was impossible. 

Also, from the time Pluto was discovered and called a planet, until the time it lost its planet status, it never made a full rotation around the sun. 
Title: Re: OMG! Schools lied to us bit older folks.
Post by: Arseen on April 25, 2023, 12:42:27 PM
Also, from the time Pluto was discovered and called a planet, until the time it lost its planet status, it never made a full rotation around the sun.
Poor Pluto