Mini-post 1: Defining Planets

It looks like the "official" definition of a planet will become what it is in the conventional wisdom: a round body orbiting a star, in short.

So, once again, Ceres will be a planet (for a number of years after its discovery, Ceres was considered a planet, until it was demoted based on the realizations that it was rather small and that there were other bit players floating about).

Past Jupiter, not only does Pluto keep and Xena gain planetary status, but Charon and several other worlds will also be members of the club (which was once an elite group of five that did not even include Earth).