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[kruddler]

I'm not sure I still have any science texts from the time, I'll have a look.
But that information was usually presented in table form.

Distance from the sun.
Length of days
Satellites etc
I'm not sure whether then 'Known satellite' qualification was evident.

It's not that important I was just having a bit of fun with it and making the point that what the general view is now with topics of Science, History and Geography is subject to change as knowledge increases.

I feel your pain though.

I used to spend a lot of time at my grandparents when i was a primary school kid. Wasn't much for a young kid to do there, but they had a nice collection of encyclopedias which i use to thumb through. A favourite topic of mine at the time was the solar system and very much how many moons a planet had was a piece of information you would find for each planet.

Couple years later, my parents got some encyclopedias and used to do the same, except my 'memory' mustn't have been very good because it all seemed different. Took me a while to work out it was......about the time newer books came out with more updated information.

So i learned pretty early that the science was ever evolving and the 'answers' at any given time was a snapshot in time based on the information available.