mnemonic for planets
tigger
sometime back, i remember reading some mnemonic for memorizing the
positions of the planets from the sun but i can't rem it for sure, can
anyone help me?
i thot it started like My Very Eccentric Mother Just Served Us N???
P???
there might be more than one, but i'll like to know the most common or
standard one(s).
thanks in advance
tigger
Bruce Milne
Mary's Violet Eyes Make Johnny Stay Up Nights Period
Bruce.
tigger (tig...@cheerful.com) wrote:
: hello all
Dave
My Very Eccentric Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.
Jeff Richards
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza (Pies)
just forget the second P for pie.....makes it sound better.
Clear skies,
Jeff
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Hazel Webb
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I prefer the pizza one though <g>
Hazel
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tigger
i think the one i read back then was probably My Very Eccentric Mother
Just Served Us Nine Pies but the others are real good too. the reason
i wanted to know (other than my own curiousity) is i've been passing
on some basic astronomy to my law tutor and when she asked for a way
to memorize the planets, i realized right then i forgot the mnemonic
but now i won't again in a hurry.
it's really nice to pass some info like this on to friends and hear
their excitement when they spot jupiter and saturn which are very high
up in the sky in the evenings in singapore.
yours
tigger
MikeTEACHR
Never Mind
Mike
Joachim Verhagen
tig...@cheerful.com (tigger) wrote:
> hello all
>
> sometime back, i remember reading some mnemonic for memorizing the
> positions of the planets from the sun but i can't rem it for sure, can
> anyone help me?
>
> P???
These are the one I have collected, Mothers pizza's or pine nuts are in
it. Personally I prefer the monsters.
Joachim.
P_______________________________________________________________________
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From: sla...@psy.man.ac.uk (Simon Slavin)
And the planet one (which I got from Robert A. Heinleins "Have Space
Suit,
Will Travel):
Mother very thoughtfully made a jam sandwich under no protest.
for: Mercurius, Venus, thoughfully = Terra = Earth, Mars, Asteroids,
Jupiter, Saturnus, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
From: snow...@xmission.com (Snowhare)
Mike Bandy wrote on 20 Jul 1994 09:33:13 -0400:
Most Volcanoes Erupt Mouldy Jam Sandwiches Under Normal Pressure
Many Viscious Earth Monsters Just Sat Under Nellies Porch
From: do...@echo.tds.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Planets in the solar system.
My Very Excellant Memory Just Stores Up Nine Planets.
From: bad...@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas
Actually, currently, I guess it is Pizzas Nine...
From: jeff.z...@execnet.com (Jeff Zeitlin)
Planets of the Solar System, in order:
My Very Extravagant Mother Just Sent Us Nine Parrots.
When Pluto comes closer to the sun than Neptune:
... Just Sent Us Pine Nuts.
From: kirr...@union3.su.swin.edu.au (Kirrily Robert - SINN Editor)
Many Very Early Mornings Julie Sits Up Naming Planets
From: ted_...@qm.sri.com (Ted Swift)
Matilda Visits Every Thursday, Just Stays Until Noon, Period.
From: bi...@znet.com (Bill Arnett)
My favorite so far is this one for the order of the planets:
"Many voters earn money just showing up near polls". I believe it is
attributed to Isaac Asimov.
From: BillFerris (billf...@aol.com)
My Very Efficient Motorcycle, AJS, Uses No Petrol.
From: Bevan Harris (B...@bigpond.com)
Another one for the planets, courtesy of Greg Lowe at Perth
Observatory.
My Very Early Model Jaguar Just Smashed Up Near Pinjarra.
(Pinjarra is a moderate sized country town about 80km south of Perth.)
From: to...@vismag.limmat.net.ch (Thomas Voirol)
A German one:
Mein Mercury my
Vater Venus father
Erklaert Earth explains
Mir Mars (to) me
Jeden Jupiter every
Sonntag Saturn sunday
Unsere Uranus our
Neuen Neptune new
Plaene Pluto plans
This will help you remember the sequence of sol's planets. If you
speak German, that is...
From: Suzanne Sarlette/Gerald Pearson <sueg...@mut1.muscanet.com>
French mnemonic for the order of the planets:
Mon vieux, Tu m'as jette sur une nouvelle planet!
Mercury, Venus, Terre (earth), Mars, ASteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Unanus,
Neptune, Pluto
From: Jean-Philippe Granchi
<jean-phili...@ota.fr.socgen.com>
Me Voici Tout Mouillé J'ai Suivi Un Nageur Poilu
English: Now I'am wet I was following a hairy diver
This sentence has great success with young (French) amateur … :-)
From: Jean Debord <JDe...@compuserve.com>
A French mnemonic for the planets
Monsieur, vous tirez mal - Je suis un novice pitoyable.
(Mister, you shoot badly - I am a pitiful beginner)
I have found them in the last issue (October 1998) of "Pour la science"
(french
edition of "Scientific American").
--
Joachim Verhagen (jcdv...@xs4all.nl)
WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/ (with science humor)
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Bill Richman
Spacesuit, Will Travel" by Heinlein), I picked up "Mother Very Thoughfully
Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest", and have remembered it ever since
(24 years or so), so I consider it a successful mnemonic. BTW: T=Terra and
A=Asteroids.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:59:04 GMT, tig...@cheerful.com (tigger) wrote:
>hello all
>
>sometime back, i remember reading some mnemonic for memorizing the
>positions of the planets from the sun but i can't rem it for sure, can
>anyone help me?
>
>i thot it started like My Very Eccentric Mother Just Served Us N???
>P???
>
>there might be more than one, but i'll like to know the most common or
>standard one(s).
>
>thanks in advance
>tigger
-Bill Richman (bil...@inetnebr.com)
http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r - Home of the COSMAC Elf Microcomputer
Simulator, Fun with Molten Metal, Orphaned Robots, and Technological Oddities.
tigger
hey, my friend just told me one which i thot was rather good.
My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets
=)
tigger
BillFerris
"My Very Excellent Motorcycle, A JS, Uses No Petrol"
Bill Ferris
Flagstaff, AZ
Triple Quadrophenic
says...
>
>Here's one from across the pond. It includes the asteroid belt:
>
>"My Very Excellent Motorcycle, A JS, Uses No Petrol"
From the "Schrodinger's Cat" series by RA Wilson -
Mother Very Easily Made a Jam Sandwicj Using No Peanuts, Mayonnaise or Glue
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Michael A. Covington
Next you'll be devising a mnemonic to tell you whether Boston is north of
New York...
Tom Faber
Good point Michael.
Why not just learn the names and order of the planets instead of
learning some dumb mnemonic.
--
Tom Faber
tigger
i had no idea boston was north of new york! not from US myself..
as for mnemonics, i think whatever helps pple remember things or stirs
some postive interest should be great, imho.
yours
tigger
Gerald Pearson & Sue Sarlette
<......>
> positions of the planets from the sun but i can't rem it for sure, can
> anyone help me?
I myself use a French one, which I saw posted a few years ago on the
Astronomy echo on Fidonet by some guy in France. I think it's sort of
nifty :-)
Mon vieux, tu m'as jete sur une nouvele planete.
(My French spelling is terrible, so I can't guarantee the spelling! I
just remember the sound.)
-- Gerry
Bruce Milne
among other things. I'll never forget the mnemonic taught to me by my
junior high school electronics shop teacher for remembering resistor color
codes:
Better be right or your great big venture goes wrong:
black, brown, red, orange...
GrapeApe
to most people, probably.
I always had problems with Uranus and Neptune- the order of the rest is a snap.
I think an early Mnemonic might even be to blame for my UN problem, due to the
creator of the mnemonic wanting to make the word Sun-up to end the Menmonic
from Saturn to Pluto. Two Uranuses?
A mnemonic with too much unused filler is more confusing than helpful.
I think the mnemonic I was taught was
Many very eager men jump (at) SuNuP.
Not too helpful. Easier to remember the planets themselves.
Two Us and the word (at)/ If one was going to put AT in there, it should at
least stand for the asteroid belt.
Tom & Bev Whiting
forget my high school chemistry teacher who taught us to convert F to C and
back again, using only arithmetic: (no algebraic formulas needed):
Step 1. Add 40
Step 2 multiply by 5/9 or 9/5 depending on which way you are going
Step 3 Subtract 40
The reason, of course, that this works, is because at minus 40 both are
equal, so you are creating an artificial zero point. Oh BTW, it has to be done
with respect to the algebraic signs. NEVER FAILS TO WORK- try it. Clear
Skies, Tom Whiting
Tom & Bev Whiting
the spectral classification of stars it sure does come in handy, all the
time; you know, O,B,A,F,.G, K,M,R,N,S [ Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right
Now Sweetie.] FWIW, Tom Whiting
tigger wrote:
> hello all
>
> sometime back, i remember reading some mnemonic for memorizing the
> positions of the planets from the sun but i can't rem it for sure, can
> anyone help me?
>
> i thot it started like My Very Eccentric Mother Just Served Us N???
> P???
>
> there might be more than one, but i'll like to know the most common or
> standard one(s).
>
> thanks in advance
> tigger
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> I'll never forget the mnemonic taught to me by my
>junior high school electronics shop teacher for remembering resistor color
>codes:
>
>Better be right or your great big venture goes wrong:
>
>black, brown, red, orange...
My college lecturer had one, which I will not repeat in a family forum,
which is so non-PC as to be even less acceptable than the RAF one for
trig ratios I had from my father-in-law:
Some Orifices Have Curly Auburn Hair To Obscure Approach.
Noctis Gaudia Carpe,
Stephen
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Daniel Drabek
(thank you Mr. Triggs-7th grade science)
DD
John Beaderstadt
> My Valet Edward Makes Juicy Sandwiches Using Needles & Pins.
I don't get it. Is this supposed to be easier to remember than Mercury
Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto?
Of course, I do have to admit that I've had to learn more things by rote
than many other people. Parochial schools are really big on
memorization; by the time you've committed major portions of the New
Testament to memory (along with the 66 books of the Bible, in order),
the nine planets are nothing.
--
"I tried to imagine the easiest way God could have done it."
--Albert Einstein
Tom & Bev Whiting
harder.
Maybe what we really need now is one for the order of asteroid discovery. All I
can ever remember is the original "big 4" Any ideas??? Clear Skies, Tom
Whiting
Joe Hartley wrote:
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In article <384E5075...@together.net>, John Beaderstadt (be...@together.net) writes:
>Daniel Drabek wrote:
>
>> My Valet Edward Makes Juicy Sandwiches Using Needles & Pins.
>
>I don't get it. Is this supposed to be easier to remember than Mercury
>Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto?
>
Er.. no. Isn't the point that it's _fun_, and as such it's a
wonderful way to spend your time? Thinking is so much more rewarding
than memorising, except for teachers who don't get the chance to hit
pupils who make a mistake.
Glen Eckart
From Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel"
In article <danield-ya0240800...@cnews.newsguy.com>,
dan...@cruzio.com (Daniel Drabek) wrote:
> My Valet Edward Makes Juicy Sandwiches Using Needles & Pins.
>
Jay Reynolds Freeman
>
> From Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel"
That was "Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest",
with the "A" for "Asteroids". ("Thoughtfully" was of course for "Terra".)
Not to worry, I am sure the Mother Thing will forgive you...
--
Jay Reynolds Freeman -- freeman at netcom dot com -- I speak only for myself.
Scott Mc
>I think the current politically correct version is:
>
>My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza (Pies)
>
>just forget the second P for pie.....makes it sound better.
>
>Clear skies,
>Jeff
>
On a trip to the air and space museum in D.C. back in the early 70's they had
a display of the planets with "My very educated mother just served us nine
pizza-pies" being sung to the tune of "Way down upon the Swaney river...".
Both the tune and mnemonic have stuck in my head since then (I was probably 15
or so then).
Ron
Judy Trummer
William Sommerwerck
nine, in correct order.