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Learn about the planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System with the Nirks! Meet Eris! The 5th episode of the “Meet the Dwarf Planets” series! You’ve met the planets with Vincent, and now it’s time to get to know the Dwarf Planets! In this episode we’ll meet dwarf planet Eris. Eris is named after the Greek Goddess of Chaos! This name fits well, because Eris has a very strange orbit compared to the other planets and dwarf planets. Eris has 1 moon Dysnomia, whose name means "Anarchy". Join Eris in and beyond the Kuiper Belt and learn all about this incredibly far away dwarf planet. Eris is accompanied by dwarf planet friends: Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the Sun. Enjoy this fun, educational song series and meet Eris, up close and personal!

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Lyrics:
I am Eris the 5th dwarf planet from our sun
The 2nd largest dwarf planet and the most massive one
Named after the Greek Goddess of discord and chaos
One of the most free-spirited dwarf planets that you’ll come across

I have one moon Dysnomia – whose name means anarchy
Before getting our official names, astronomers had a different idea for me
They wanted to call me Xena the warrior princess and my moon Gabriele her sidekick
But they kept tradition and named me after a mythological deity like the planets

I am Eris the 5th dwarf planet from our sun
The 2nd largest dwarf planet and the most massive one
Named after the Greek Goddess of Chaos and discord
My super inclined orbit makes me impossible to ignore

One Eridian day is just a little longer than one Earth Day
It takes approximately 25.9 hours for me to rotate
I orbit the sun every 557 earth years on a path all my own
My orbit is at a 44 degree angle from the rest of the solar system

I live out in the Kuiper Belt but at aphelion I go beyond it
And, when I’m at perihelion I’m not the furthest dwarf planet
My eccentric, angled, elliptical orbit crosses several other’s orbits
So, I can be closer to the Sun than even Pluto gets

CHORUS
I am Eris the 5th dwarf planet from our sun
The 2nd largest dwarf planet and the most massive one
I was found by Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz
They wanted to call me Xena, but that name just didn’t stick

The astronomers first spotted me in October of 2003
While making observations at the Palomar observatory
But confirmation of my existence took a lot of time
And my discovery wasn’t confirmed until January 2005

At first, they thought that I would be planet number 10
Pluto was still considered planet number 9 back then
But because of my discovery, Haumea and Makemake
Planets were redefined, and dwarf planets are what were called today

CHORUS
I am Eris the 5th dwarf planet from our sun
The 2nd largest dwarf planet and the most massive one
I have strong gravity compared to other dwarf planets
But not nearly as strong as the gravity on your planet

Compared to Earth I have much less gravity
If you were to visit you would weigh a lot less on me
If we weighed you in pounds and you weighed 160
You would only weigh 13 pounds on me

My rocky surface is covered in frozen methane and nitrogen ice
Which makes me very reflective, bright and shiny and nice
I reflect almost all of the light that reaches me
Just like a mirror would reflect, you see

I am Eris the 5th dwarf planet from our sun
The 2nd largest dwarf planet and the most massive one
It takes over 9 hours for Sun’s light to reach me
Because I am extremely far away you see

I’m so far from the sun, it gets really cold on me
Temperatures as low as negative 405 degrees
My temperatures vary a little as I travel closer to the Sun
But won’t get much higher than -360 degrees when I’m at perihelion

Some scientists believe that I might generate my own heat
That could mean that I have an internal ocean on me
Confirmation of this theory would take a lot more study
But maybe, just maybe there is hidden life on me

CHORUS

I am Eris the 5th dwarf planet from our sun
The 2nd largest dwarf planet and the most massive one
Named after the Greek Goddess of Discord and Chaos
Maybe someday you’ll visit and our paths will cross

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