My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos. This was the code I used back in middle school so that I could remember the planets – well, it used to be “My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas”, but Pluto apparently lost its title so we got nachos instead. This code stood for the the eight planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. I remember studying about them and little bits about the planets – like, Mars was the red planet, Juputer was the biggest one and Saturn had rings – but I never fully understood what a planet is. I guess my brain had a hard time comprehending the thought that there were eight “Earths” all over – I mean heck, I get goosebumps just staring into the wide open seas and thinking about what’s “out there”!
Scientists don’t really know what a planet is, or how to define it. They just know that in order to be called a planet, something has to (a) orbit around the sun and (b) have enough gravitational mass within its core so that it takes the shape of a sphere.
In the world of astrology, each planet symbolizes an aspect of a person’s character – for example, Mars represents passion and Jupiter stands for good fortune and wisdom. While NASA sees the orbiting around the sun as day and night, astrologists define them as positive and negative rulerships, their sides affecting the people rely on one of the eight planets to exhibit their core values.