So they named it 'Eris'

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Profile Clyde C. Phillips, III

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消息 420456 - 发表于:14 Sep 2006, 18:13:01 UTC

Don't get that confused with "Eros" which is another asteroid that looks like a rock or long potato that gets kind-of close to Earth once in awhile. Eros is much, much smaller that Eris.
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消息 420408 - 发表于:14 Sep 2006, 16:17:08 UTC
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Wow! Thanks for the info.

Eris has a moon, and this too now has an official name: Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness


Well, let's forget about Xena and Gabrielle then :P

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消息 420347 - 发表于:14 Sep 2006, 14:32:55 UTC
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According to this BBC News item the 'minor planet' which caused all the recent rumpus has been called Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord.

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