I don't believe we should classify planetary objects by location. We should use properties of the objects as a guide.

Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies.

Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the average. The Pluto-like objects are more typical in our solar system than the nearby planets we first knew.

As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.