UNIVERSE
ASTEROIDS
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Haumea
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Pluto
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Eris
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Makemake
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Detailed explanation-1: -From an average distance of 6, 289, 000, 000 miles (10, 125, 000, 000 kilometers), Eris is about 68 astronomical units away from the Sun.
Detailed explanation-2: -Like almost all of the known dwarf planets (with the exception of Ceres), Eris lies in the Kuiper Belt, which rings the outer solar system. But Eris is even farther-flung than Pluto, circling our star about three times farther away.
Detailed explanation-3: -In February 2016, Eris’s distance from the Sun was 96.3 AU (14.41 billion km; 8.95 billion mi), more than three times that of Neptune or Pluto.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is currently the most distant known solar system object from the Sun at a distance of roughly 97 astronomical units. Its semimajor axis is 67.669 AU, its perihelion distance is 37.78 AU, and its aphelion distance is 97.56 AU.
Detailed explanation-5: -The distance of Dwarf Planet 136199 Eris from Earth is currently 14, 462, 441, 480 kilometers, equivalent to 96.675450 Astronomical Units.