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On February 22, 2008, "My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants", coined by 10-year-old Maryn Smith of Great Falls, Montana, was announced as the winner. [11] The phrase was featured in the song 11 Planets by Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Lisa Loeb and in the book 11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System ...
The first one I learned (in the mid 1950's) was "Man very early made jars serve useful needs, period." (None too good, I agree.) I suspect this predates the discovery of Pluto, when the "period" was added. Also, the original form of the "My very energetic mother" mnemonic featured pickles, not pizzas. (Unimportant, of course.)
The order of the planets in terms of distance from earth is taken as: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the asterisms. [10] The positions and periods of the planets was calculated relative to uniformly moving points. In the case of Mercury and Venus, they move around the Earth at the same mean speed as the Sun.
The principal change was to space leap years differently so as to make the average calendar year 365.2425 days long, more closely approximating the 365.2422-day 'tropical' or 'solar' year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun. The reform advanced the date by 10 days: Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 ...
Natal astrology, also known as genethliac astrology or genethlialogy, is a system of astrology that claims to shed light on an individual’s personality or path in life [1] based on constructing a horoscope or natal chart that includes the exact date, time, and location of an individual's birth.
The next two months are, according to astrology, a time to unwind. Between Jan. 28 and April 1, 2024, not a single planet will be in retrograde.
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One important discovery made at different times in different places is that the bright planet sometimes seen near the sunrise (called Phosphorus by the Greeks) and the bright planet sometimes seen near the sunset (called Hesperus by the Greeks) were actually the same planet, Venus. [7] Animation depicting Eudoxus' model of retrograde planetary ...