{"id":46,"date":"2006-08-24T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyanglea.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2006-08-24T23:30:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T03:30:45","slug":"my-very-efficient-mother-just-served-us-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"My Very Efficient Mother Just Served Us Nine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sciam.com\/index.php?title=farewell_pluto&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Farewell, Pluto: BLOG: SciAm Observations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the new definition of <em>planet<\/em> by the International Astronomical Union, the former ninth planet, is no longer a planet. Here is the <a title=\"IAU 2006 General Assembly Result\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iau2006.org\/mirror\/www.iau.org\/iau0603\/index.html\">new definition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a \u201cplanet\u201d is defined as a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pluto fails part \u201cc\u201d of the definition, because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune\u2019s. So it is now classified as a \u201cdwarf planet\u201d along with some large interplanetary asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>So can anyone propose a new mnemonic for remembering the planet names? How about\u2026 My very efficient mother just served us noodles?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farewell, Pluto: BLOG: SciAm Observations According to the new definition of planet by the International Astronomical Union, the former ninth planet, is no longer a planet. Here is the new definition: a \u201cplanet\u201d is defined as a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,77,78,85,88],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-astronomy","tag-planet","tag-pluto","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}