The IAU, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that spherical, trans-Neptunian objects that can't clear debris from their own orbits should be called--wait for it--"plutoids".
Note that this definition doesn't include Ceres, which appears now to be an object without a classification. Maybe it's a ceroid.
Don't you love it when politics and science get in bed and wind up with mutant offspring?
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