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Family of the Sun planet song for curious learners
A Smithsonian gallery copy presents a musical overview of the nine planets. It describes Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto with simple rhymes about size climate moons and rings. It notes Pluto's 248 year orbit crossing Neptune's from 1979 to 1999 and that Neptune was farthest from the Sun during that era.
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National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Pluto
Neptune