How many planets are in space?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? A few stars, or a satellite, maybe even one of the seven other planets in our solar system? But how many planets are there in all of outer space? We asked astronomer Mark Popinchalk to help us find the answer!
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:04.0 | Moment of um. |
| 0:07.0 | Moment of um comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Nico Gonzales Whistler. Moment of Um, um, comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Nico Gonzales Whistler. |
| 0:14.4 | Um... |
| 0:16.4 | Listen up, everybody. I've done it. I have achieved memory mastery. My very excellent mother jumps |
| 0:37.0 | mother jumps skateboards until night time. |
| 0:45.0 | Get it? |
| 0:49.0 | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. |
| 0:55.0 | Each word starts with the same letter as a planet, so I can remember all eight of them. |
| 1:01.0 | Wait, there are eight planets in space, right? |
| 1:07.0 | Or maybe there's more? |
| 1:09.0 | Ugh, my friend Ray wanted to know this too. |
| 1:12.0 | How many planets are there in space? My friend Ray wanted to know this too. |
| 1:13.0 | How many planets are there in space? |
| 1:16.0 | This is a really great question and it's a question that astronomers have had to try and answer over and over again and the answer keeps changing. |
| 1:32.0 | My name is Mark Popin Chuck. I'm a graduate student at And the answer keeps changing. |
| 1:32.6 | My name is Mark Popinchock. |
| 1:33.6 | I'm a graduate student at the Coney Graduate Center |
| 1:36.2 | and at the American Museum of Natural History. |
| 1:38.0 | We think about the planets in our solar system. |
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