What is Eris?
Eris is a dwarf planet with an eccentric orbit that takes it between 37.77 AU and 97.56 AU from the Sun. With a diameter of 2400 km and a mass 27% greater than Pluto, Eris shook up the international scientific community when it was discovered in 2005 by a Mount Palomar-based team led by Mike Brown. Eris is named after the Greek goddess of dischord. The discovery of Eris prompted the International Union of Astronomers to formally define the word “planet.” Under the new definition, Eris was classified as a “dwarf planet” along with Ceres and Pluto, bringing the new total for planets in the solar system to eight. Neither bodies have cleared the neighborhood around their orbits, which is one of the necessary qualities an object must have if it is to be considered a true planet. Eris is between 2,400 and 3,000 km in diameter — it’s so distant we can’t get an exact measure on it. It has one satellite, named Dysnomia. Eris is a scattered disc object, which is the term for an extremely large,
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