They made the right decision to anyone who actually knows something of astronomy.
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And that’s why they screwed the pooch. The 2006 redefinition was done in the middle of the night by astronomers, not planetary scientists.
Planetary science is subset of the branch of science known as astronomy, not a separate one. It includes planets as well as moons and other objects down to meteors. The term is from back when ‘planet’ was a more general term than today. Really there are few astronomers who engage in this silly argument about what a planet is—it’s mostly from those see it from an armchair perspective.