It's official! -- The Solar System now has 8 planets

[corfy]

Pluto's orbit crosses with Neptune's orbit and planets now have to have a defined, independent orbit.

What I don't get is, if they are using Pluto's orbit to claim that Pluto isn't a planet, are they going to use the same argument to claim that Neptune isn't a planet, either?

[Granite]

Neptune is on the same plane as the other planets.

The orbit thing sounds like the deciding factor, but other minor points may have helped too. For example, Pluto does not rotate around its own center of gravity (like earth) -- the center of gravity is actually between Pluto and its "moon"

[Kn'thrak]

Neptune is on the same plane as the other planets.

The orbit thing sounds like the deciding factor, but other minor points may have helped too. For example, Pluto does not rotate around its own center of gravity (like earth) -- the center of gravity is actually between Pluto and its "moon"

With that, most likely Pluto doesn't have a core either. I never accepted Pluto as a planet since it doesn't have any planet related stuff as all said above. But too lazy now to read all that now so what is Pluto called now? Asteroid?