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School taught us wrong in astronomy.
Arseen:
I just learned that in school they taught us knowingly wrong about the order of planets!!!
I was wathing science program and learned that altough we were taught that Neptune is the 8th planet and Pluto the 9th, infact on January 21 1979 Pluto temporarily became the 8th and Neptune the 9th planet from the sun.
On February 11 1999 they crossed back.
So infact during all my school years (1986-1996) the school bullshitted me!!!
And if asked I think most of us have been taught the same.
And yes I know Pluto is no more planet, but back then it was.
Just FYI. ;D
quickfingers818:
I don't care what they say, Pluto will always be a planet to me.
noemann:
I have a saying: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and I am from Neptune ;D
Oobgarm:
Thread needs more Uranus jokes.
TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: Arseen on April 14, 2014, 12:11:25 PM ---I just learned that in school they taught us knowingly wrong about the order of planets!!!
I was wathing science program and learned that altough we were taught that Neptune is the 8th planet and Pluto the 9th, infact on January 21 1979 Pluto temporarily became the 8th and Neptune the 9th planet from the sun.
On February 11 1999 they crossed back.
So infact during all my school years (1986-1996) the school bullshitted me!!!
And if asked I think most of us have been taught the same.
And yes I know Pluto is no more planet, but back then it was.
Just FYI. ;D
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When I first learned that this happened, I wondered, what would happen if they crossed paths at the same time? I did some reasearch, and because of their orbit paterns, they could never crash into each other. I was a little disapointed because the thought of two planets crashing seemed pretty cool at the time.