Thread: When I was a kid, we had 9 planets...
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Old 09-September-2006, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ggchuck View Post
Just for fun:
http://www.astronautix.com/poems/whesakid.htm
...and remembering the early magic of the solar system.
"Uranus was tipped on its side
and was surely far more interesting visually than Neptune, "

Voyager 2 measured the current value of Uranus's rotation, right? When was it first known? At least, that it rotated on its "side"?
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