My Very Educated Mother...

Just Sent Us Noodles? Oh yes, its true. That mnemonic they taught you as a kid, the one that got messed up between 1979 and 1999, is now out of date completely. Pluto has been kicked out of the planet club. Well, not COMPLETELY... they have removed it from the official list of planets in our solar system, which now has 8 planets, but it is still a "Dwarf Planet", a new designation that will be applied to many newly discovered Pluto-like objects in the outer reaches of our system. So now the kids have to learn a new... albeit shorter... mnemonic. And apparently, Disney will need to rename their dog. Or maybe, redraw him as a Yorkie...