Pluto is Now a Dwarf Planet – New Solar System

Search Engines WEB writes “After years of wrangling and a week of bitter debate, astronomers voted on a sweeping reclassification of the solar system. In what many of them described as a triumph of science over sentiment, Pluto was demoted to the status of a dwarf planet. In the new solar system, there are eight planets, at least three dwarf planets and tens of thousands of so-called smaller solar system bodies, like comets and asteroids.

NYT article and Washington Post article