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Eris moves fast. What is its speed, when compared to the planets in the solar system? When will it get close to earth and to sun?
I think perhaps you should look up “Eris” in Wikipedia before you send a question. Briefly, Eris does not move fast. It moves very slowly because it is so far from the Sun; its orbital period is 557 years. The suggestion that it is coming close to the Sun or the Earth is nonsense. It is very strange to take one of the most distant known members of the solar system and imagine that it is moving fast or coming toward the Earth.
David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
July 23, 2009
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