Original sentence: After much discussion, it was decided via a vote that those bodies should instead be classified as dwarf planets.As described by astronomer Steven Soter:.Beyond the scientific community, Pluto has held a strong cultural significance for many in the general public considering its planetary status during most of the 20th century, in a similar way to Ceres and its kin in the 1800s.Originally an IAU committee had proposed a definition that would have included a much larger number of planets as it did not include (c) as a criterion
Edited sentence: A paper by Steven Soter describes it this way:.Beyond the scientific community, Pluto has held a strong cultural significance for some of the public (given its planetary status since 1930), in a similar way to Ceres and its kin in the 1800s.Negotiations resulted in those bodies being reclassified as dwarf planets.Originally an IAU committee had proposed a definition that would have included a much larger number of planets because it did not include (c) as a criterion.Planetary discriminants defined in that paper very clearly separate the 8 IAU-recognized planets from all other small solar system objects