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 …

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) today announced that the dwarf planet known as Xena since its 2005 discovery has been named Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord. Eris's …

Mar 12, 2025 · Dwarf planet Eris is a member of a group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. This distant realm is populated with …

Eris is one of the largest known dwarf planets in our solar system. It's about the same size as Pluto but is three times farther from the Sun. At first, Eris appeared to be larger than Pluto.

Oct 8, 2019 · It is the most distant discovered dwarf planet from the Sun and has the greatest mass of the five dwarf planets. It was nicknamed Xena by the team, and later named Eris, …

Sep 15, 2006 · The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced that the dwarf planet known as Xena since its 2005 discovery has been named Eris, after the Greek goddess of …

Jan 30, 2025 · Eris, large, distant body of the solar system, revolving around the Sun well beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered in 2005 in images taken …

Eris was originally given the designation: 2003 UB313, but the team that discovered the little dwarf planet nicknamed it Xena after the television show female warrior. Eris was later …

Eris is approximately 10.2 billion km (6.3 billion miles) from the sun located in the Kuiper Belt in what is called the "scattered disk" and is considered a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO).

Jan 5, 2005 · The dwarf planet was named for Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord. This is one of the most fitting Eris facts, since its classification was disputed upon discovery. …