I stayed at home in the earlier part of the day to sort out some documents and laze around. I went to meet Yinghui in the evening to study but I don't think we got much work done LoL I went to collect the keys to Room 3-8, the Meeting Room as I thought we will have the meeting there. It turned out that it was in Room 1-1 instead so I returned the keys and got the other set instead. Meeting went rather smooth today, though it didn't start off too well. The atmosphere in the beginning wasn't too pleasant but it was over and done with in a flash.
I guess I have to thank Jiayi, Esther and Bernice for making the trip down for the meeting and enable the meeting to run better and to the others too for forking out their time and putting in such commendable efforts. Let's hope we can get it running well. Thanks guys. Let's all try to work as a group.
After meeting, we went to have supper as usual. Andrew, Michael, Ee Sheer, Yinghui, Yaoxing, Alex, Chee Meng and I were present. Chee Meng gave us a treat today LoL and Andrew came over to my place. He wanted me to attend Singapore Polytechnic's LEO Club's Installation and Induction Ceremony. It will be a very long day tomorrow.
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Pluto has been categorized by International Astronomical Union on Thursday, 24 August 2006 as a dwarf planet, thus stripping it's status as a planet, the ninth rock from the Sun. The reason for this is that under its new rule, a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must "clear the neighborhood around its orbit." Pluto is thus disqualified, as its oblong orbit overlaps Neptune's.
Under the new definition, asteroid Ceres (A planet in the 1800s before demotion) and 2003 UB313 (Nicknamed 'Xena' by its discoverer, Mr. Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology) and Pluto will be known as dwarf planets.
[Another object under consideration to be a planet in the International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting in Prague, Charon (Pluto's Largest Moon) was not categorized]
Pluto was discovered after an extensive search for the hypothetical planet by the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Arizona in 1930.
The name Pluto was supposed to have come from the Roman God of the Underworld.
After the change, the Solar System will have been in this order:
Sun - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune
