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Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. [22] It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disk and has a high-eccentricity orbit. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team led by Mike Brown and verified
Symbol used for Proserpina and apparent synonym Kora by astrologers in Poland, and the astrology software Urania, who identify Proserpina with the dwarf planet Eris. [35] Transpluto [34] ⯗ U+2BD7: Fictitious planet beyond Pluto (arrow pointing beyond Pluto's orbit)
The other dwarf-planet symbols were invented by Denis Moskowitz, a software engineer in Massachusetts. His symbols for Haumea, Makemake, and Eris appear in a NASA JPL infographic, as does the second symbol for Pluto. [ 105 ]
Denis Moskowitz, a software engineer in Massachusetts, [94] proposed astronomical symbols for the dwarf planets Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, Haumea, Eris, Makemake, and Gonggong. [ 95 ] [ 94 ] These symbols are somewhat standard among astrologers (e.g. in the program Astrolog ), [ 96 ] which is where planetary symbols are most used today.
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 ...
English: Ⓚ, the "all rights reversed" symbol used by the Principia Discordia. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2006 as a symbol for the dwarf planet Eris, and since 2012 used for Eris on a website at the w:Sternberg Astronomical Institute that appears to have copied from Wikipedia.
The following 14 pages use this file: Astrological symbols; Astronomical symbols; Discordianism; Dwarf planet; Eris (dwarf planet) Geophysical definition of planet
[81] [82] [83] NASA has used his Haumea, Eris, and Makemake symbols, as well as the traditional astrological symbol for Pluto [84] when referring to it as a dwarf planet. [82] Symbols have been proposed for the next-largest named candidates, but do not have consistent usage among astrologers. [ 82 ]