# Need a better nmemonic for planetary bodies in the solar system

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 23, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-better-nmemonic-for-planetary-bodies-in-the-solar-system/616610 "2012-03-23T15:58:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-better-nmemonic-for-planetary-bodies-in-the-solar-system/616610/21 "2012-03-26T05:05:58Z")

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> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Ceres is between Mars and Jupiter. So that would be MVEMCJSUNPHME. And I’m not sure of the order of H, M, and E.

Right, Ceres is in the asteroid belt. I looked it up and still managed to botch it. 😛

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-better-nmemonic-for-planetary-bodies-in-the-solar-system/616610/22 "2012-03-26T06:02:52Z")

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> [@Battle\_Pope](#):
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> “My Very Elderly Mother Just Shot Uncle Ned’s Parrot”
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> A quick adjustment would make it homocide rather than bird-murder.

My very elderly mother crazily just surveyed Uncle Ned’s palatial household, missing everything.

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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-better-nmemonic-for-planetary-bodies-in-the-solar-system/616610/23 "2012-03-26T07:38:31Z")

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_ **"My very Evil mother just served us NOTHING!!! Nothing at ALL! And we haven’t eaten in four days! And then she ate a huge meal right in front of us, too!"** _  
The first sentence is for the known planets, the rest of the mnemonic is for planets we may or may not discover in the future. But I felt it was important to tell the entire story of how that evil woman tried to deliberately starve us to death.

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