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Because Eris is located in a region of space beyond the Kuiper belt known as the scattered disc, it has a very eccentric orbit that doesn’t line up on the solar plane as the planets Mercury through Neptune do. The alignment of objects on the solar plane seems to be the determining factor when an object is designated as being a planet.
