The distance of Dwarf Planet 136108 Haumea from Earth is currently 7,615,763,271 kilometers, equivalent to 50.908233 Astronomical Units.
Light takes 7 hours, 3 minutes and 23.4518 seconds to travel from Dwarf Planet 136108 Haumea and arrive to us..
Xena is currently about 97 astronomical units from the sun (an astronomical unit is the distance between the sun and Earth), which means that it is some nine billion miles away at present.
Xena is on a highly elliptical 560-year orbit, sweeping in as close to the sun as 38 astronomical units..
Xena is currently about 97 astronomical units from the sun (an astronomical unit is the distance between the sun and Earth), which means that it is some nine billion miles away at present.
Xena is on a highly elliptical 560-year orbit, sweeping in as close to the sun as 38 astronomical units.Aug 24, 2006.
Orbit and Rotation
Eris takes 557 Earth years to make one trip around the Sun.
The plane of Eris' orbit is well out of the plane of the solar system's planets and extends far beyond the Kuiper Belt, a zone of icy debris beyond the orbit of Neptune..
For example, if a probe were launched on September 25th, 2025, a flyby mission could take place within 14.25 years, when Haumea would be 48.18 AU from the Sun.
Based on a launch date of Nov. 1st, 2026, September 23rd, 2037, and October 29th, 2038, a flyby mission would take 16.45 years to get to Haumea..
—The International Astronomical Union (IAU) today announced that the dwarf planet known as Xena since its 2005 discovery has been named Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord.Sep 14, 2006.
On Wednesday, the union announced the creation of the term “plutoid” for a dwarf planet beyond the orbit of Neptune.
There is only one plutoid other than Pluto: Eris, the sphere of rock and ice formerly nicknamed Xena that is slightly larger than Pluto..
A Kuiper-belt object like Pluto, but slightly less reddish-yellow, Xena is currently visible in the constellation Cetus to anyone with a top-quality amateur telescope..
A Kuiper-belt object like Pluto, but slightly less reddish-yellow, Xena is currently visible in the constellation Cetus to anyone with a top-quality amateur telescope.Aug 24, 2006.
Jan 8, 2005: Scientists announce they have discovered a Pluto-sized world billions of miles beyond the orbit of Neptune.
They nickname the tiny world Xena after a fictional television character.
The discovery reignites a debate about the definition of a planet..
Xena - named after the protagonist of the TV series "Xena, Warrior Princess" -- is an object whose size hasn't been precisely determined, but it could be about 1.5 times the size of Pluto.
That makes it a frozen world perhaps a little smaller than our Moon, but one much farther away..
Eris: Significant Dates
Jan 8, 2005: Scientists announce they have discovered a Pluto-sized world billions of miles beyond the orbit of Neptune.
They nickname the tiny world Xena after a fictional television character.
The discovery reignites a debate about the definition of a planet..
Both Eris and the asteroid Ceres are also classified as dwarf planets.
Sep 14, 2006: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announces that the dwarf planet known as Xena will be called Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord.
Eris's moon is named Dysnomia, the demon goddess of lawlessness and the daughter of Eris..
Michael E.
Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology who discovered the distant ball of ice and rock that he nicknamed Xena, chose the name Eris, after the goddess of discord and strife in Greek mythology.
The International Astronomical Union made the name official today.Sep 14, 2006.
Sep 14, 2006: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announces that the dwarf planet known as Xena will be called Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord..
December 28, 2004The Kuiper Belt is a big cloud of gas, dust, and rocky debris located at the outer edge of our solar system.
Haumea was first discovered in 2004.
It was accepted as one of our dwarf planets by the International Astronomical Union in 2008..
Jan 8, 2005: Scientists announce they have discovered a Pluto-sized world billions of miles beyond the orbit of Neptune.
They nickname the tiny world Xena after a fictional television character.
The discovery reignites a debate about the definition of a planet..
Jan 8, 2005: Scientists announce they have discovered a Pluto-sized world billions of miles beyond the orbit of Neptune.
They nickname the tiny world Xena after a fictional television character.
The discovery reignites a debate about the definition of a planet..
Very briefly some years ago, Mike Brown discovered the tenth planet in the solar system.
This was in 2005; Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, had spotted an object that officially became known as Eris (he preferred the nickname Xena)..
Its official name at this point is UB313. However, it was nicknamed Xena, after Xena, Warrior Princess , the popular television show. First measurements estimated planet Xena had a diameter of about 1,500-2,000 miles (approximately 2,500-3,500 km).
Scientists believe the temperature on Xena is absolute zero. Observation in 2005 also revealed that planet Xena has a moon, nicknamed Gabrielle. The discovery of UB313 has led to a fierce debate on whether planet Xena can be technically termed a planet.
Dysnomia, the only satellite of Eris discovered so far, is about 250 kilometers in diameter and reflects only about 1 percent of the sunlight that its parent reflects. The name is both a nod to Lucy Lawless, the actress who played Xena on the TV show, and to the astronomical tradition of naming the first satellites of dwarf planets.
Cultural impact of the American-New Zealand TV series
Warrior Princess has been referred to as a pop cultural phenomenon and feminist and lesbian icon.The television series
Which employed pop culture references as a frequent humorous device
Has itself become a frequent pop culture reference in video games
Comics and television shows
And has been frequently parodied and spoofed.
