A group of international scientists has stripped Pluto of its title as the ninth planet.

The celestial body was sent to minor leagues. It will now be a founding member of the new class of "dwarf planets."

In early reaction from NBC10.com users, most people are ignoring the astronomers.

In an NBC10.com Live Vote, 93 percent of viewers thought Pluto is getting a bad deal. (In a poll across 9 other NBC sites, about 90 percent voters still considered Pluto a major planet.)

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Live Vote: Should Pluto Still Be A Planet?

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The International Astronomical Union approved new guidelines Thursday that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.

The leading astronomers, meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since 1930, when it was discovered.

In doing so, the group provided a new definition of what is and what isn't a planet.

Pluto failed to make the new cut because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's. The guidelines also require planets to have enough mass that they are close to round.

Astronomers have been trying to draw a distinction between the eight "classical planets" -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune -- and Pluto, which is smaller than Earth's moon and has an eccentric orbit.

Pluto has a large moon named Charon, and two small moons named Nix and Hydra were discovered in 2005.

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