Names of the days of the week the "first day". This convention is also found in some Austronesian languages whose speakers were converted to Christianity by European missionaries. In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian "vtornik" "Tuesday" and "vtoroj" "the following", "chetverg" "Thursday" and "chetvertyj" "the fourth", "pyatnitsa" "Friday" and "pyatyj" "the fifth"; see also the Notes. In Standard Chinese, the week is referred to as the cycle of the stars (). The modern Chinese names for the days of the week are based on a simple numerical sequence. The word for "week" (which is literally translated to "star day")
IAU definition of planet and the asteroids Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea. On 18 August the Committee of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society endorsed the draft proposal. The DPS Committee represents a small subset of the DPS members, and no resolution in support of the IAU definition was considered or approved by the DPS membership. According to an IAU draft resolution, the roundness condition generally results in the need for a mass of at least 5 kg, or diameter of at least 800 km. However, Mike Brown claims that these numbers are only right for rocky bodies like asteroids,