From STORM DUNLOP
Ariadne (25 January) should have consulted dictionaries of mnemonics
to find the accepted one for the order of the planets from the Sun: ‘Men
Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes’. This does, of course,
differentiate between Mercury and Mars, but the wish to include the Moon
is hardly realistic, given that it is sometimes inside the Earth’s orbit
and sometimes outside. Surely Ariadne does not believe the Moon is a planet?
Storm Dunlop Chichester, West Sussex
