Thursday, January 15, 2009

And I Thought I Knew About... Planets





I've been listening to podcasts from Ohio State University's Astronomy 161 course. I learned that we now officially only have eight planets in our solar system... Pluto got banished to the "dwarf planets" category along with Eris and Ceres.

The outer four planets called the gas giants all have rings which I didn't know. From top top bottom are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all showing their rings.

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