Astronomers Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mark Sykes recently debated what it takes for a solar object to be classified as a planet, but failed to reach a consensus.
Maybe it could be be put to a popular vote, based on an observation made by Tyson:
He added that Americans are much more attached to Pluto than people [...]
Pluto is a planet in the US, a “thing” elsewhere
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 21 August, 2008 to the comment subset
