Eris [ ☄️ ] ➡️ 2,300 km most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet after Pluto ➡️ Largest known object that has not been visited by a spacecraft ➡️ Methane ice surface, similar to Pluto and Triton, but white instead of reddish ➡️ One known moon (Dysnomia) ➡️ Orbits the Sun once every 560 years at an average of 68 AU (currently at a distance three times that of Pluto) credits: NASA/Wikipedia/Universe Atlas 🔭 MAP OF THE UNIVERSE 🌌 available at their bio link 👉 @universeatlas ✨✨✨ #eris #

Beyond the orbit of Neptune, hidden in the deep cold of the Kuiper Belt, lies Eris — a dwarf planet that once changed everything we thought we knew about our Solar System. Discovered in 2005, Eris is slightly smaller than Pluto but even more massive, and its existence forced astronomers to rethink what defines a planet. | The Brain Maze

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/5osI5c Eris is just slightly smaller than Pluto, and it orbits the sun about three times farther than Pluto. NASA first thought that Eris was bigger than Pluto, and they originally described Eris as the 10th planet in the solar system. But the International Astronomical Union, or IAU, wasn't too thrilled about adding Ceres to the li

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