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From: adamm@encore.UUCP (Adam S. Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: (Resistor Code (now planets) Mnemonic)
Message-ID: <1814@encore.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 13:48:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 13:48:11 1987
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In article <24976@sun.uucp>, landauer@sun.uucp (Doug Landauer) says:
> Actually, the mnemonic sentences we all learned about the planets are
> all wrong now that we know that Pluto is closer to the sun than
> Neptune.

I thought that it was more the case that the orbits of Neptune and Pluto
have them changing places with respect to the sun at opposite ends of
their elliptical orbits.  If that's true, then n-hundred/thousand years
from now we'll have to change back again, and then . . .
-- 
Adam S. Moskowitz	...!{decvax,ihnp4,linus,necntc,talcott}!encore!adamm

        "The morning blues, they make me feel so bad;
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