Pluto is still a planet
I'm getting increasingly disgusted with the commentary surrounding the new IAU definition of "planet". It's not that I would normally get disgusted... but it must just be a slow news day and everyone seems to have a silly opinion. NPR started off with a statement like "If you have a model of the Solar System, you might want to snap off the ninth planet, Pluto." WTF?!?!
It's not like it's gone. Further, it's still a freakin' planet. It's just a dwarf planet... one of four other dwarf planets. So shut the hell up! Pluto doesn't care. The New Horizons spacecraft doesn't care. Further, no one else would care if there wasn't such a big deal being made about it. Sheesh. (end rant)
We now have 12 planets. Get used to it. 8 are "classical planets" and 4 are "dwarf planets". Expect that last category to get much bigger as time increases.
UPDATE []: Oops. Doug's right. Seems like Resolution 5B that would have added the term "classical" in front of "planet" in the definition didn't pass. A further illustration of how silly this is.