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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The year Eris was discovered	2005	70%
While Pluto appears reddish, Eris appears to be this color	White	65%
With a diameter of around 2326 km, Eris is about 2/3 the size of this planetary satellite	Earth's Moon	55%
Eris was originally thought to be larger than Pluto, but measurements taken by this space probe proved that it was actually slightly smaller	New Horizons	55%
Eris is named after the Greek goddess of ________ and ________	Discord	50%
Eris has a surface area of about 17 million square km, which is around the size of this country	Russia	45%
Eris was originally nicknamed this, after a warrior princess in a TV show	Xena	35%
Only known moon, named after one of the mythological daughters of the goddess Eris	Dysnomia	30%
	Strife	30%
Eris has a very high ________, a measure of the diffuse reflection of solar radiation	Albedo	25%
Spectroscopic observations revealed that Eris is covered by this chemical compound in it's solid form	Methane	20%
The team of astronomers that discovered Eris was led by this astronomer and professor at Caltech	Mike Brown	15%
Eris was discovered by a team based at this observatory in southern California	Palomar Observatory	10%
Due to its very eccentric orbit, Eris is not classified as a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) like Pluto, but a _________	Scattered Disk Object (SDO)	10%

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