I'm saying there were two reasonable options: one where they were different subcategories of planets and one where they were their own category but not called dwarf "planets" to clearly reflect that separation from "planets".
I'm not saying anything about what we call dwarf planets and planets being the same as each other. The technical details are fine, it's purely the oxymoronic naming which screwed public acceptance.
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I'm saying there were two reasonable options: one where they were different subcategories of planets and one where they were their own category but not called dwarf "planets" to clearly reflect that separation from "planets".
I'm not saying anything about what we call dwarf planets and planets being the same as each other. The technical details are fine, it's purely the oxymoronic naming which screwed public acceptance.