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Dwarf Planet Eris, formerly known as 'Xena'
SigurRosFan
post Sep 13 2006, 10:59 PM
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Here's the official name of the 'Xena' ...

Eris: 'Xena' (2003 UB313, 136199)

Eris I or Dysnomia: 'Gabrielle'


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post Sep 14 2006, 11:53 AM
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Nice name, the group responsible for approving names must have a sense of humor. Who would have expected that. tongue.gif
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- SigurRosFan   Dwarf Planet Eris   Sep 13 2006, 10:59 PM
- - SigurRosFan   Sources: - http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/Recent...   Sep 13 2006, 11:07 PM
- - Jyril   Eris is the personification of strife and Dysnomia...   Sep 13 2006, 11:12 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (Jyril @ Sep 13 2006, 04:12 PM) Eri...   Sep 14 2006, 12:13 AM
- - Jyril   Oh, and the Roman counterpart (actually translatio...   Sep 13 2006, 11:36 PM
- - David   So it was Eris that threw the golden apple of 2003...   Sep 14 2006, 12:29 AM
- - dvandorn   I seem to recall that Brown, et. al., were holding...   Sep 14 2006, 12:52 AM
|- - JRehling   My very eager mother just started using non plasti...   Sep 14 2006, 02:31 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 13 2006, 05:52 PM) ...   Sep 14 2006, 04:46 AM
- - alan   Nice name, the group responsible for approving nam...   Sep 14 2006, 11:53 AM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (alan @ Sep 14 2006, 06:53 AM) Nice...   Sep 15 2006, 02:01 AM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 14 2006, 10:01 PM) ...   Sep 15 2006, 03:53 PM
||- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (stevesliva @ Sep 15 2006, 11:53 AM...   Sep 15 2006, 05:09 PM
|- - yg1968   Would a mission to Eris be possible? Is anybody ta...   Oct 7 2007, 06:20 PM
- - Jyril   Space.com: QUOTE Eris' discoverer, Michael Br...   Sep 14 2006, 01:18 PM
- - lyford   As the Bad Astronomer points out:QUOTE The moon of...   Sep 14 2006, 02:30 PM
- - Myran   QUOTE lyford wrote: That's a great story, but ...   Sep 14 2006, 04:31 PM
- - Jyril   SkyTonight.com: QUOTE The satellite, now called D...   Sep 14 2006, 06:47 PM
- - dvandorn   Here's one from that list that caught my eye: ...   Sep 15 2006, 04:02 PM
|- - Jyril   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 15 2006, 07:02 PM) ...   Sep 15 2006, 06:33 PM
- - alan   Eris is currently 97 AU from the sun. It took Voya...   Oct 7 2007, 08:52 PM
|- - dvanavery   QUOTE (alan @ Oct 7 2007, 04:52 PM) Eris ...   Oct 8 2007, 04:03 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Dawn manages an acceleration of 7 m/s/d or about 8...   Oct 7 2007, 10:33 PM
- - edstrick   Probably some perfect "grand tour" type ...   Oct 8 2007, 04:22 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (edstrick @ Oct 7 2007, 09:22 PM) P...   Oct 8 2007, 05:22 AM
- - jamescanvin   Moved posts to a new thread The Great Planet Debat...   Aug 12 2008, 03:13 PM
- - Juramike   Eris has weather! space.com article about sea...   Nov 19 2008, 09:33 PM
- - MarcF   In the journal Nature from today: "A Pluto-l...   Oct 27 2011, 07:51 AM
- - Paolo   I just read the Nature paper. Eris is quite an int...   Oct 27 2011, 08:53 AM


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