The IAU has NO “authority” to make Pluto not a planet, so the question “will Pluto ever be a planet again” should be answered as, it never stopped being one. 424 astronomers out of a membership of 10,000 plus many planetary scientists who are not IAU members cannot dictate reality. If enough scientists and lay people reject the IAU definition, it has no real standing. The fact is, dwarf planets are a third class of planets, in addition to terrestrials and jovians. We have three types of planets in our solar system, not two. And any argument that we need to keep the number of solar system planets low has no scientific merit. The universe is not designed for our convenience. If our solar system has 200 planets, then that is what it has. We don’t try to artificially limit the number of elements in the Periodic Table to keep the concept of element “special” or to keep the number memorizable. The IAU has shown its ineptness and irresponsibility in refusing to clean up the mess it made. By continuing to suppress debate on this, as the leadership actively did at this year’s General Assembly, the IAU is effectively abdicating its right to be considered any type of authority on this matter.