Eris and Pluto dwarf planet orbits, illustration. The Sun is at centre, with the orbit of its outermost planet (Neptune, blue) shown as a red circle.
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4961 x 3722 px | 42 x 31.5 cm | 16.5 x 12.4 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
31 May 2019Photographer:
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Eris and Pluto dwarf planet orbits, illustration. The Sun is at centre, with the orbit of its outermost planet (Neptune, blue) shown as a red circle. Two Kuiper Belt dwarf planet orbits are also shown: Pluto (left) and Eris (upper right). A dwarf planet is an object that fails to dominate its orbit around the Sun (unlike a true planet), but which still has an independent orbit (unlike moons), and is large enough to be spherical due to gravity.