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Eris is an asteroid that orbits in the outer reaches of the solar system. The discovery of Eris was the catalyst for the downgrading of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. Eris has a moon orbiting it called Dysnomia. It was originally named Xena before officially being named Eris. Orbit and Rotation. Orbit and Rotation. Eris takes 557 Earth years to make one trip around the Sun. The plane of Eris' orbit is well out of the plane of the solar system's planets and extends far beyond the Kuiper Belt, a zone of icy debris beyond the orbit of Neptune. Eris is the most distant dwarf planet, located beyond the orbit of Neptune.It was discovered in 2005 and was originally classified as a planet. It is the second-largest dwarf planet discovered and it led to both it and Pluto’s demotion from planets to dwarf planets. Orbit Industries Inc Corporate homepage. Prefab Products. Simple Support Bracket System; Universal Mounting Adjustable Boxes.
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Description | English: The diagram illustrates the orbit of (136199) Eris (blue) compared to those of (134340) Pluto and the three outermost planets (white/grey). The segments of orbits below the ecliptic are plotted in darker colours, and the red dot is the Sun. The diagram on the left is a polar view while the diagrams on the right are different views from the ecliptic. Français : Ce schéma montre l′orbite de (136199) Éris (en bleu) comparée à celles de (134340) Pluton et des trois planètes les plus éloignées du Soleil (en gris). À gauche se trouve la vue polaire, à droite se trouve les vues de l′écliptique. |
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Discovered in 1930, Pluto is the second closest dwarf planet to the Sun and was at one point classified as the ninth planet. Pluto is the largest dwarf planet but only the second most massive, with Eris being the most massive.
Eris Orbital Plane
Pluto Diagrams
Eris Orbits The Sun
- Pluto is named after the Roman god of the underworld.
This was proposed by Venetia Burney an eleven year old schoolgirl from Oxford, England. - Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006.
This is when the IAU formalised the definition of a planet as “A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.” - Pluto was discovered on February 18th, 1930 by the Lowell Observatory.
For the 76 years between Pluto being discovered and the time it was reclassified as a dwarf planet it completed under a third of its orbit around the Sun. - Pluto has five known moons.
The moons are Charon (discovered in 1978,), Hydra and Nix (both discovered in 2005), Kerberos originally P4 (discovered 2011) and Styx originally P5 (discovered 2012) official designations S/2011 (134340) 1 and S/2012 (134340) 1. - Pluto is the largest dwarf planet.
At one point it was thought this could be Eris. Currently the most accurate measurements give Eris an average diameter of 2,326km with a margin of error of 12km, while Pluto’s diameter is 2,372km with a 2km margin of error. - Pluto is one third water.
This is in the form of water ice which is more than 3 times as much water as in all the Earth’s oceans, the remaining two thirds are rock. Pluto’s surface is covered with ices, and has several mountain ranges, light and dark regions, and a scattering of craters. - Pluto is smaller than a number of moons.
These are Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Europa, Triton, and the Earth’s moon. Pluto has 66% of the diameter of the Earth’s moon and 18% of its mass. While it is now confirmed that Pluto is the largest dwarf planet for around 10 years it was thought that this was Eris. - Pluto has a eccentric and inclined orbit.
This takes it between 4.4 and 7.3 billion km from the Sun meaning Pluto is periodically closer to the Sun than Neptune. - Pluto has been visited by one spacecraft.
The New Horizons spacecraft, which was launched in 2006, flew by Pluto on the 14th of July 2015 and took a series of images and other measurements. New Horizons is now on its way to the Kuiper Belt to explore even more distant objects. - Pluto’s location was predicted by Percival Lowell in 1915.
The prediction came from deviations he initially observed in 1905 in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. - Pluto sometimes has an atmosphere.
When Pluto elliptical orbit takes it closer to the Sun, its surface ice thaws and forms a thin atmosphere primarily of nitrogen which slowly escapes the planet. It also has a methane haze that overs about 161 kilometres above the surface. The methane is dissociated by sunlight into hydrocarbons that fall to the surface and coat the ice with a dark covering. When Pluto travels away from the Sun the atmosphere then freezes back to its solid state.
Eris Orbit Eccentricity
Sources:https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/795/the-rich-color-variations-of-pluto/
First Published: May 2013
Last Updated: February 2021
Author:Chris Jones
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Last Updated: February 2021
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