> It's the same way with Ceres--when it was first discovered it was called a planet, until eventually scientists realized there were a whole SLEW of objects in that orbit. Now we just call it the asteroid belt, and Ceres is just one of the largest asteroids (perhaps the largest? I'm unsure) in that orbit.

To my understanding, Ceres is the largest asteroid in the belt. Though it's due to get blown up by Space Pirates soon - the Nintendo told me so, and it NEVER lies.

> > Where I think the new definition is completely,
> >utterly, pointlessly stupid is in clause (1)(a),
> >which specifies that to be a planet, a body must
> >be "in orbit around the Sun" - that is to say,
> >the 204 currently known objects in orbit around
> >other stars that are commonly known as
> >"extrasolar planets" are no longer classified as
> >planets. Even though many of them are larger than
> >Jupiter.
>
> Yeah, not sure what the heck that was all about. What are people supposed to call those things now?

I can only think they meant to say "in orbit around a star" and totally frigged up the terminology. The definition makes exactly zero sense to me any other way.