Planet rhyme

[elena]

does anyone remember the planet Rhyme that reminds you which order the planets go in?

[Dave Potts]

Is it this one?

Amazing Mercury is closest to the Sun.
Hot, hot Venus is the second one.
Earth comes third, it's not too hot.
Freezing Mars awaits an astronaut.
Jupiter is bigger than all the rest.
Sixth comes Saturn, its rings look best!
Uranus and Neptune are big gas balls.
Tiny Pluto is the last planet of all.

[Quizmonster]

I'm sure Dave's poem is the one you are looking for. However, here's something else a bit briefer that might help, which was a schoolboy mnemonic decades ago:

"My very educated mother just served us nine pies."

[scubadiver]

...Or - My very early morning jog starts upon Newcastle pier. - okay, so there isn't a pier at Newcastle, but that's just being picky.

[Hamish]

And just to add Uranius is not a gas ball therefore the rhyme, though spatially accurate (depending on the alignment of the planets) is not physically so. (they also think Neptune had a solid surface.

[indiesinger]

My favourite is My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

[Greedyfly]

Your gonna have to make up a new one with all these supposed planets popping up - lol

[sft42]

Ok...I'll do the childish joke...Uranus is a big ball of gas.....TEE HEE!

[kags]

but what about the 20 year period during Pluto's orbit when it is nearer the sun then Neptune? And is Pluto a planet really? elena you are probably wishing you never asked this question!

[IndieSinger]

When I was about 8, or maybe 7, I'm sure there was talk on the news of two new planets - one called Carla (sp?) and one called Smilie (sp?) (I'm unsure of the spellings, this is just a phonetic version of what I would have hear when I was 8!) but I've never heard these mentioned in the last 13 years since. Was it all a dream?

[Janetex]

The one I half remember starts "My Very Earnest Man".

[Moog]

Nobody's mentioned the newly discovered Sedna yet....

[IndieSinger]

Oh very well.

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets. Sedna.

[happysax]

Here's another planet theme rhyme for you (from the TV series 'Red Dwarf'): Ippy Dippy my space shippy on a course so true, past Neptune and Pluto's moon the one I choose is you.

[smileygirl]

well when i was in primary school it was... My Veruccas Eat My Jelly Successfully Under New Potatoes sigh... and no i didn't go to special school lol :)

[loverskiss]

Mercury venus earth and mars that's where we go to see the stars jupiter saturn uranus to neptune pluto how do you do