At a recent meeting of the IAU in Beijing, China, members unanimously voted to redefine the astronomical unit, or AU, which has long served as the fundamental unit of distance between objects in the solar system. 

http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/09/astronomical-unit-measure-redefined.html

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