Eris is the ninth-most massive known object orbiting the Sun and the sixteenth-most massive in the Solar System (counting moons). It is also the largest known object in the Solar System that has not …

Apr 24, 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 thousands of …

Nov 4, 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 two years …

Jun 2, 2024 · Eris is a dwarf planet situated beyond Neptune in the edges of the Kuiper Belt. It is an icy rocky planet, bigger than Pluto and twice as far from the Sun.

Eris was officialy classified as dwarf planet in August 2006. Its highly eccentric orbit takes Eris up to over three times as far from the sun as Pluto. Apart from long-period comets, Eris and its moon are …

Eris is the brightest planet, 2nd most reflective body, in our solar system. The only "body" in our solar system that is brighter is Saturn's satellite Enceladus. It appears a bright white due to the methane …

Eris, named after the Greek goddess of strife, is the most massive and second-biggest dwarf planet known to exist in the solar system.

Jan 31, 2025 · Eris, a dwarf planet located approximately 95.6 AU from the Sun, was discovered in 2005 after a re-analysis of data initially collected in 2003. Its discovery contributed to the 2006...

Jan 5, 2005 · Eris is the furthest dwarf planet from the Sun, and is also the most massive currently recognized dwarf planet. Eris is located beyond the orbit of Neptune and beyond the Kuiper belt in a …

It is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. Eris is slightly smaller than Pluto, but it has more mass than Pluto, making it the most massive dwarf planet. It is a " scattered disc object" in …