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Saturday, 22 August 2020

Eris ( The dwarf planet )

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Eris  ( minor planet designation 136199 Eris ) is the most massive and second largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by Polomar observatory based term led by Mike Brown and its discovery was verified later that year. In September 2006 it was named after the Goddess of strife and discord. Eris is the ninth most massive object directing orbiting the Sun and the 16th most massive overall in the Solar System including Moon. 



It is also the largest object that has not been visited by a spacecraft. Ideas has been measured at 2326 + 12 km in diameter. It's a mass is 0.27 percent of the Earth mass and 27% more than dwarf planet Pluto though Pluto is slightly larger by volume. Eris is a trans Neptunian object ( TNO ) and a member of a high eccentricity  population known as the scattered disk. It has one known Moon, Dysnomia. 

With the exception of some long period comets and till 2018 discovered on December 17, 2018 Eris and Dysonomia  were the most distant known natural object in the solar system. Because Eris appeared to be larger than Pluto, NASA initially described it as the Solar System tenth planet. Under the IAU definition approved on August 24, 2006, Eris is a dwarf planet along with object such as Pluto, Ceres, Haumea and Makemake.

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