This is a sham foisted upon a public by scientists that are unwilling to admit Pluto was mis-classified as a planet decades ago.
If a change is made, it should be to REMOVE Pluto from the listing of planets and add it to either the comets or the asteroids category.
Of course, removing Pluto would be an admission by science that it is wrong....so they will compound the error by bastardizing the definition of planet.
Any global warming/evolution fans out there want to say scienstists are unbiased?
This is interesting. Is there some sort of Platonic form of a planet floating around to which all of our planets must conform?
This is a matter of semantics. With the discovery of new objects in our solar system the utility of our previous definition of "planet" is called into question. Saying that it is "wrong" to have called Pluto a planet implies that there is some absolute definition of "planet" that we must adhere to. There is not. Language is invented by humans and modified as the need arises.