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Putin in Space?

After all this controversy over whether or not we had a tenth planet, or even really a ninth, it's looking more and more like the scientific communit is voting for twelve! That's going to be a big deal for the text book publishers, and cause all sorts of "revelations" for planetary astrologers...

I think it overall makes sense, but I don't see how they can count Charon, which does orbit Pluto after all. If they're going to start saying that satelites of planets still essentially orbit the sun, then they're going to have to start adding in all those nice round moons of Jupiter and Saturn as well! Titan is bigger than Pluto if I remember correctly.

(actually, my friends over at Science Fiction pointed out that Charon is really almost as big as Pluto and they have a shared orbit, unlike the Earth and the moon. Also Ceres will be regaining planetary status which was given and then taken from it in the late 1800s purely because it resides in the asteroid belt next to a bunch of smaller rocks.)