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Similarly, Eris, the malevolent "Goddess of Discord and Chaos", is the main antagonist in the DreamWorks 2003 animated movie Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas against Sinbad and his allies. The dwarf planet Eris was named after this Greek goddess in 2006. [103] In 2019, the New Zealand moth species Ichneutica eris was named in honour of Eris. [104]
Eris is named after the Greek goddess Eris (Greek Ἔρις), a personification of strife and discord. [34] The name was proposed by the Caltech team on September 6, 2006, and it was assigned on September 13, 2006, [ 35 ] following an unusually long period in which the object was known by the provisional designation 2003 UB 313 , which was ...
She is the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and was identified with the goddess Enyo. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Eris most often refers to: Eris (mythology) or Discordia , the goddess of discord in Greek mythology Eris (dwarf planet) , the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System
Dwarf planet Eris, similar in size to its better-known cosmic cousin Pluto, has remained an enigma since being discovered in 2005 lurking in the solar system's far reaches. While Pluto was ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Allegorical item from Greek mythology J. M. W. Turner, The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides (c. 1806) The manzana de la discordia (the turret on the left belongs to the Casa Lleó Morera; the building with the stepped triangular peak is ...
It carried the provisional designation of S/2005 (2003 UB 313) 1 until it was officially named Dysnomia (from the Ancient Greek word Δυσνομία meaning anarchy/lawlessness) in September 2006, after the daughter of the Greek goddess Eris. [6] With an estimated diameter of 615 +60 −50 km, Dysnomia spans 24% to 29% of Eris's diameter. It ...
In 2005, astronomer Mike Brown and his team announced the discovery of 2003 UB 313 (later named Eris after the Greek goddess of discord and strife), a trans-Neptunian object then thought to be just barely larger than Pluto. [59] Soon afterwards, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory press release described the object as the "tenth planet". [60]