This is where I say who the hell cares. Its a semantic debate based on the word "planet." You want more planets in the solar system, then you widen the definition, if you want less then you curtail the scope.
If they ended up defining Pluto as something other than a planet (or they added those other bodies), then all astronomy books produced in America (and possibly in the world) would have to be rewritten. Do you think that will happen? No. So guess what? While the astronomers go around saying there are X planets (and continue to debate it ad nausium), most people in the world and proboably most publishers would proboably continue to say there are only 9 planets, at least for awhile.
In the end who cares. Rather than wasting countless man hours on the debate of how to define the word planet, lets find out once and for all why the moon is made out of cheese and what type of cheese it is, or better yet astronomers should look for the location of heaven so we can send a space shuttle there and visit God.
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