Author Topic: OMG! Schools lied to us bit older folks.  (Read 254 times)

April 24, 2023, 07:38:15 PM
Read 254 times

Arseen

  • Amiibo lover extraordinaire
  • *
  • Information Offline
  • This one has about 10 percent of all posts
  • Oversight
  • Posts: 20561
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).

April 25, 2023, 12:23:52 AM
Reply #1

TDIRunner

  • All round awesome dude!
  • *
  • Information Offline
  • Post Whore
  • Posts: 5086
    • My MediaFire Account
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. 
Maybe, just once, someone will call me "sir" without adding, "you're making a scene."

My Raw Scans

April 25, 2023, 12:42:27 PM
Reply #2

Arseen

  • Amiibo lover extraordinaire
  • *
  • Information Offline
  • This one has about 10 percent of all posts
  • Oversight
  • Posts: 20561
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