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Bookmark or Share- In Depth | Eris - NASA Solar System ExplorationEris 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.
- Eris • Facts and Information on the Goddess ErisEris is said to be the child of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods of Olympus, but in other myths, she’s the daughter of Erebus and Nyx, the king and queen of the darkest night. When she had a son, she named him “Strife” and took him along in her chariot when she and Ares went to war.
- Eris (mythology) - WikipediaIn Greek mythology, Eris (Ancient Greek: Ἔρις, romanized: Eris, lit. 'Strife') is the goddess and personification of strife and discord, particularly in war, and in the Iliad (where she is the "sister" of Ares the god of war).
- Eris (dwarf planet) - WikipediaEris 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 - NASA ScienceDwarf 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 miniature icy worlds, which formed early in the history of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.
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