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Originally Posted by Charliebad
Ok well the orbit of Eris is set to enter our solar system along the same lines as Jupiter, in a big cigar shaped orbit...
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According to Brown et. al. Eris has an elliptical orbit that goes from 97AU in to 38 AU, and orbits once every 557 years. Jupiter orbits at 5AU, so Eris is NOT going to come that far into the solar system. BTW, even if it were to change orbit and start falling straight into the inner solar system, it would not arrive by the year 2012... not even close. Ask the people holding their breath for the New Horizon's probe to sail past Pluto...