Back Eris (dwergplaneet) Afrikaans (136199) Eris AN إريس Arabic إريس ARZ 136199 Eris AST Erida Azerbaijani (136199) Eris BAR Эрыс (карлікавая планета) Byelorussian Эрыс (карлікавая плянэта) BE-X-OLD Ерида (планета джудже) Bulgarian
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Hubble_Dysnomia_orbit_overlay.jpg) Low-resolution image of Eris and Dysnomia as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, August 2006 | |||||||||
| Discovery | |||||||||
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| Discovery date | January 5, 2005[2] | ||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||
| (136199) Eris | |||||||||
| Pronunciation | /ˈɛrɪs/,[3][4] /ˈɪərɪs/[5][4] | ||||||||
Named after | Ἔρις Eris | ||||||||
| 2003 UB313[6] Xena (nickname) | |||||||||
| Adjectives | Eridian /ɛˈrɪdiən/[9][10] | ||||||||
| Symbol | &sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Eris_symbol_(bold).svg){kind=small} (mostly astrological) | ||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[6] | |||||||||
| Epoch May 31, 2020 (JD 2459000.5) | |||||||||
| Earliest precovery date | September 3, 1954 | ||||||||
| Aphelion | 97.457 AU (14.579 Tm) | ||||||||
| Perihelion | 38.271 AU (5.725 Tm) | ||||||||
| 67.864 AU (10.152 Tm) | |||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.43607 | ||||||||
| 559.07 yr (204,199 d) | |||||||||
Average orbital speed | 3.434 km/s | ||||||||
| 205.989° | |||||||||
| 0° 0m 6.307s / day | |||||||||
| Inclination | 44.040° | ||||||||
| 35.951° | |||||||||
| ≈ December 1, 2257[11] ±11 days | |||||||||
| 151.639° | |||||||||
| Known satellites | Dysnomia | ||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||
Mean diameter | 2326±12 km | ||||||||
Mean radius | 1163±6 km[12][13] | ||||||||
| (1.70±0.02)×107 km2[a] | |||||||||
| Volume | (6.59±0.10)×109 km3[a] | ||||||||
| Mass | |||||||||
Mean density | 2.43±0.05 g/cm3[14] | ||||||||
Equatorial surface gravity | 0.82±0.02 m/s2 0.084±0.002 g[c] | ||||||||
Equatorial escape velocity | 1.38 ± 0.01 km/s[c] | ||||||||
| 15.786 d (synchronous)[15] | |||||||||
| ≈ 78.3° to orbit (assumed)[d][16] ≈ 61.6° to ecliptic (assumed)[d][e] | |||||||||
| 0.96+0.09 −0.04 [sic] geometric[12] 0.99+0.01 −0.09 Bond[17] | |||||||||
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| B−V=0.78, V−R=0.45[19] | |||||||||
| 18.7[20] | |||||||||
| –1.21[6] | |||||||||
| 34.4±1.4 milli-arcsec[21] | |||||||||
Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System.[22] It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disk and has a high-eccentricity orbit. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team led by Mike Brown and verified later that year. In September 2006, it was named after the Greco–Roman goddess of strife and discord. Eris is the ninth-most massive known object orbiting the Sun and the sixteenth-most massive overall in the Solar System (counting moons). It is also the largest known object in the solar system that has not been visited by a spacecraft. Eris has been measured at 2,326 ± 12 kilometers (1,445 ± 7 mi) in diameter;[12] its mass is 0.28% that of the Earth and 27% greater than that of Pluto,[23][24] although Pluto is slightly larger by volume.[25] Both Eris and Pluto have a surface area that is comparable to the area of Russia or South America.
Eris has one large known moon, Dysnomia. In February 2016, Eris's distance from the Sun was 96.3 AU (14.41 billion km; 8.95 billion mi),[20] more than three times that of Neptune or Pluto. With the exception of long-period comets, Eris and Dysnomia were the most distant known natural objects in the Solar System until the discovery of 2018 AG37 and 2018 VG18 in 2018.[20]
Because Eris appeared to be larger than Pluto, NASA initially described it as the Solar System's tenth planet. This, along with the prospect of other objects of similar size being discovered in the future, motivated the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term planet for the first time. Under the IAU definition approved on August 24, 2006, Eris, Pluto and Ceres are "dwarf planets",[26] reducing the number of known planets in the Solar System to eight, the same as before Pluto's discovery in 1930. Observations of a stellar occultation by Eris in 2010 showed that it was slightly smaller than Pluto,[27][28] which was measured by New Horizons as having a mean diameter of 2,377 ± 4 kilometers (1,477 ± 2 mi) in July 2015.[29][30]
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