LogFAQs > #961803647

The decision to redefine 'planet' wasn't widely supported in the IAU, and it has caused a few rifts in the astronomical community. The issue wasn't with Pluto, it was with Eris and co. And the definitions proposed had to be changed several times after some embarrassing blunders, which led me to wonder the decision was more about wanting a preferred outcome than it was about scientific clarity.

I never saw the point in redefining what was always a fairly nebulous term. Subclassification always seemed an easier way of dealing with the issue, and we already do so informally anyway.

Now, we have astronomers using the term 'worlds' just to get away from the shitfight over 'planets'.

Some of those issues (...but there will be too many planets!) are ridiculous reasons to make that change anyway.

That said, connecting the term 'astrology' to the decision seems a pretty far stretch.