Dava Sobel, who began her planet fetish aged 8, quotes the following mnemonic as an aid to memorise the order of the planets: My very educated mother just served us nine pies, which sadly with Pluto's demotion no longer works. However, there's nothing passé about the rest of this book which tells the fascinating story of our solar system through myth and history, astrology and science fiction to the latest data from robotic space probes.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 36 September 2006 ) |
