Research Plan source text: “Requirements for Planet Classification”

summary: The author of this text annoyingly insists that celestial objects must have cleared their local area of other objects in order to be considered a planet, even though Pluto has been a planet for a very long time.

research question: What are the arguments for and against classifying Pluto as a planet?

research text list:
Dwarf Planets: A Guide (book)
“Why Pluto Should be a Planet” (online article)
“Declassifying Pluto” (journal article)

presentation plan: I will create a poster that graphically represents the arguments for and against classifying Pluto as a planet with pictures and brief explanations. I will then go through the arguments in more detail with viewers who stop to look at my poster.

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