"We'll call them dwarfplanets or something, " says Iwan Williams, an astronomer at the University of London who favors the idea and also served on the panel.
The "new" Solar System agreed at the IAU's General Assembly has eight planets - Mercury to Neptune - and at least three dwarfplanets: Pluto, Eris and the largest asteroid in the Solar System, Ceres.
It becomes gravitationally perturbed, with any big planets still orbiting the dead star then nudging smaller rocks in all directions - many of them towards the dwarf.