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Saturday, August 26, 2006
Amazing but true... / 8/26/2006 09:10:00 PM

Pluto loses status as solar system's ninth planet Posted: 24 August 2006 2255 hrs

PRAGUE : Pluto on Thursday lost its seven-decade status as the ninth and outermost planet of the solar system, the world's top astronomical body decided. The decision was made at an assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). "The eight planets are Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune," said the IAU resolution, passed in a raised-hands vote after what, by the discreet standards of the astronomical community, was a stormy debate. Pluto's status had been contested for many years by astronomers who said that its tiny size and highly eccentric orbit precluded it from joining the other acknowledged planets. The anti-Pluto movement gained ground after the discovery of a distant object beyond Pluto's orbit called 2003 UB313, also known unofficially as Xena. Its discoverer said UB313 was as big as Pluto and thus could lay claim to being a planet. Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930, by an American astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh, then aged 24. Named after the god of the underworld in classical mythology, it orbits the Sun at an average distance of 5,906,380,000 kilometres, taking 247.9 Earth years to complete a single circuit. An unmanned US spacecraft, New Horizons, is due to fly by Pluto and the Kuiper Belt in 2015. - AFP/de

Ok this news came as a real shock to me. My sis was like panicked as it may affect her psle exam studies. 8 planets? My very efficient mother just served us nachos. Ok. Glad to find this article :) think sis will use it for her article review.

Anw com meeting rocks today~ firstly met kitleng, zhi hui and yinghin (; then we were joking and walking to je popular to find eunice and df when we saw paul lim! ARGGGH ok nv mind then go jec met xueqiang and band ppl (: sorry xueqiang we were making a lot of noise. The presents seriously rock, though my handwriting suckc. df, is not i dui zi ji no xi xin lors, is i really cmi lors. Anw got confronted by df for some particular reason I do not want to state la. Ya. Love choir com! &poor eunice got traumatised by these christian women. HELLO!? a person's religion is to be decided by oneself. you can't force others.

I'm proud to be a freethinker. So is eunice. So get that straight - those who are trying to sway people to join your religion. Off to mug now~


/ believe in wonderland,
with you in my mind
it's not that hard to believe
i'm in wonderland
and that's where I am
only a place to where we know
and never escape into reality
plunge into a fantasy

just about my love



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