can anybody please remember the rhyme that helps you with the position of the planets in elation to the earth?

Answer 1

Sing to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
Jupiter, Saturn, and some stars
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, too
That's the solar system for you!

Answer 2

The order of the planets outward from the Sun is (or was):
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
I'm not sure why so many people remember a mnemonic which mentions pizzas; here's a slightly different version which seems to me to be more appropriate:
"My Very Educated Mother Just Served Up Nine Planets".
This is all well and good whilst there really are nine, but in August 2006 the International Astronomical Union came up with a draft resolution which gave this revised collection of planets:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon and Xena. My revised mnemonic was:
"My Very Educated Mother Can't Judge Symphonies Unless Neighbours Play Classical Xylophones".
However the draft resolution was rejected and a new version passed with this list:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which led to my new version as;
"My Very Educated Mother Judges Symphonies Unusually Noisy", though in view of the controversy that was stirred up, I have another version, which reads:
"My Version Evidently Might Just Suggest Universal Nonsense" :)
I can provide a number of arguments as to why I belive the new resolution to be a poor definition for the planets, but this is not really the appropriate place. Contact me if you'd like more information on this, and why - using the IAU's definition - I can show that the solar system only has 3 planets; Mercury, Saturn and Uranus. This led me to produce another mnemonic, which goes; "My, So Unexpected"! The point being that this was not what the IAU intended, but is a consequence of what I believe to be poor science in the wording of the resolution.

Answer 3

Pluto IS still a planet! So it has been re categorized. That doesn't alter what it is, does it. Look at it this way,,, If some idiot with a dozen degrees decided to say that Mercury is actually a dead dwarf star not a planet,,, would that change anything? No, Of course not! OR, If the Earth was created when a giant planet smashed into it billions of years ago,, does that mean that Earth is no longer a planet but is no more than a giant asteroid?? .... NO! How Ridiculous! ...... Anyway,, I don't know the rhyme you speak of. I never learned it. I just read encyclopaedia's at an early age. ................................ Now,,, If this galaxy was called the Martini Galaxy then you could call Pluto an ice cube!! lol.

Answer 4

My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

Answer 5

Mercury- My
Venus- Very
Earth- Educated
Mars- Mother
Jupiter- Just
Saturn- Said
Uranus- Uh Oh!
Neptune- No
Pluto- Pluto!

That's Stephen Colbert's new rhyme ever since Pluto has been excluded as a planet. Maybe not the traditional one, but it's still helpful.

Good luck!

Answer 6

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick
But out by us its just 3,000 light years wide
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe.

The Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
12 million miles a minute, that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because they’re all crazy down here on earth.

Answer 7

I don't know, just remember them! Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto.

I heard they found oil on Uranus.

Answer 8

Here's one I used to use- it's a bit outdated now

Mercury's closest to the sun
Venus is the second one
Earth is third, it's where we are
Mars is fourth and twice as far

Giant Jupiter is the fifth
Ringy Saturn is the sixth
Uranus, seventh
Neptune, eight
Nine is Pluto, far away
Where it's cold and dark, night and day.

Answer 9

Most Villains Eat Macaroni Just SUNday Period

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto - If you want to still count it as a planet

So this phrase still works by dropping the period

Answer 10

my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas?

not a rhyme, but a pneumonic of sorts.