[haku]

Originally Posted by simon

Big news! Astronomers are now leaning towards just eight planets:

http://www.newscientistspace.com/art...t-planets.html

Thanks for the article.

This is pretty exciting news, the new proposal seems fine to me, 8 planets and dwarf planets or planetoids for the other smaller spheroids, i think that works well and is easily understandable by everybody. Hopefully this proposal will pass.
As for creating a special class of Plutonian objects, it seems a bit redundant with Kuiper Belt objects but why not, if this is what it takes to put Pluto where it belongs, it's really not a problem.