No More Pizzas

So I'm back in school=more learning! I'm so stoked about Astronomy every time I have that class. Perhaps I just have great memories linked to the "outer space" from having space food, or staring up at tiny Saturn through my family's white-tubed telescope. Naturally, I chose Astronomy out of the other choices - Oceanography, Geography, etc. This course is specific to Life in the Universe, but we discuss key topics as well - such as Pluto no longer being a planet, and the life-stages of a star!

I mostly just want to talk about Pluto here though. Tons of people have written complaints upon hearing about poor Pluto's new category, but as my Astronomy professor reminds us, Pluto has yet to complain about it -- hah. It's just we all grew up with familiarizing ourselves with acronyms like "My Very Excellent Mother Just Made Us Nine Pizzas" to help with our tests. Now what? Well, I'm here to say why there are no more "pizzas!"

There are 2 categories of planets: Terrestial and Jovian. The Terrestial planets are rocky, and closest to the sun, Mercury-Mars. Following those planets is the Asteroid Belt. The Asteroid Belt consists of the building block material (the leftovers in another sense) of these planets. Then comes the Jovian planets, made of mostly Hydrogen and Helium. From Jupiter to Neptune, with the Kuiper (coy-per) Belt following them. The Kuiper Belt is said to be where some comets derive from, which contain the building blocks of the Jovian planets. And then there's little Pluto, smaller than the Earth's moon. Located in the Kuiper Belt, it is said to be a degassed comet. If you notice, the other planets are not located in a belt and are in the clear on it's orbit around the Sun.

I guess we'll just have to come up with a new acronym, or just claim that "My Very Excellent Mother Just Made Us Noodles"