Is Pluto A Planet? By Graham Rax: Source Analysis

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The source I chose to evaluate is an article called “Is Pluto a planet?” written by Graham Rax. This source was published by Kalmbach Publishing Company in 1999, and mainly talked about is the Pluto should be consider as a planet or not. For this paragraph, it mainly talks about what is planet, what the figure does the Pluto has, and it give a conclusion that we can’t define the Pluto as a planet or treat is as a member of Kuiper Belt. We can tell that the article was published by a formal publisher, written by a professional writer. Also the writer use lots of numbers and accurate language to certify his conclusion. The first resource I want to use to evaluate this article is a book called The Essential Cosmic Perspective (sixth …show more content…
Introduction to the Pluto system science special issue, published by Elsevier Inc. in 2015, is considered as an academic journal. The first paragraph notice the Pluto in detail. The Pluto orbit in an average 39.44 AU from the Sun and have a high eccentricity, have a radius of 1137km which is much smaller than the Moon. For the article I’m evaluating, it indicate that the Pluto’s aphelion is about 4.6 billion miles (50.13 AU). The diameter is about 1500 miles (2400 km), we can tell it’s about 1200km in radius, which is extraordinary close to the accurate number. For this time, the article use a creditable number in the …show more content…
Klahr Hubert, Brandner Wolfgang, Jakosky Bruce. These three people are positively expert of Astronomy, especially Jakosky Bruce, the leader of the University of Colorado at Boulder team within the NASA Astrobiology institute, has authority to define the planet and his book the extremely high credibility. In this powerful resource, we can find some really interesting facts of the dwarf planet: The dwarf planets are usually less massive than planets, with an irregular orbit around the star. This is exactly what the article means in its third part, which means that the article is extremely precise in this part of crucial research. I reckon this part as valuable source for scholar

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