yes, they said it's a dwarf planet. ok so it's not official yet but the guys from Harvard think it's legit so it's pretty much in the bag.
PS i actually read several different articles on this, maybe this wasn't the best one to post to highlight my viewpoint.
more stuff here http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20143009-26255-2.html if you don't care don't read buttwads.
"'Planet' is a culturally defined word that has changed its meaning over and over again," one of the debaters, Historian Owen Gingerich from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, argued. "My feeling is that in retrospect, the IAU should not have attempted to define the word 'planet.'"
*blocks Obel again*