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.

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

We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was the only one we saw. And just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. They're large enough to make themselves round by self gravity, and they surely pass the test of planethood.

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

The Kuiper Belt is the largest structure in the solar system. We used to think Pluto was a misfit.

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