After all the fuss about how the new (major) planet definition was arrived at and what it was, Richard Tresch Fienberg wrote an editorial ( "...we got a definition that reads like it came from bureaucrats, not scientists.") for the November 2006 Sky and Telescope suggesting a new mnemonic for the major planets under that definition:
Many Very Egotistical Malcontents Just Screwed Up Nomenclature.
Expect the definition of planet to a big issue again at the 2009 IAU conference.
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After all the fuss about how the new (major) planet definition was arrived at and what it was, Richard Tresch Fienberg wrote an editorial ( "...we got a definition that reads like it came from bureaucrats, not scientists.") for the November 2006 Sky and Telescope suggesting a new mnemonic for the major planets under that definition:
Many Very Egotistical Malcontents Just Screwed Up Nomenclature.
Expect the definition of planet to a big issue again at the 2009 IAU conference.