Now was the time to try to save face. She may not know what order the planets were in- or, okay, how many rings Saturn had- but she knew some nice space trivia which she could probably bring up now, in-amongst listening to her classmates and trying to note down any extra information they gave out. She may be clueless about Astronomy now, but she didn't need to stay that way, she resolved as she put her hand into the air.
"There are two in the picture," she pointed out with a slight frown. "But I thought they were just made of rocks floating around, so how can you really count that? Also, for Pluto and Neptune, doesn't it sometimes change? So that they get closer and further away? Because it's not a circle?" Her father had been complaining about that when making an order for some client, that it had been affecting his modelling of the planets and therefore his charmwork. She wasn't really sure how, but it sounded important, anyway.
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