Frozen World of Eris Looks a Lot Like Pluto

By Space.com Staff
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Artist's rendering of Eris, announced in July 2005 by Mike Brown of Caltech. It is more massive than Pluto. The sun is in the background. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech)

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