On this day in 2005 - January 5th - Mike Brown's team at Palomar Observatory discovered Eris
The discovery of this distant object that originally appeared to be bigger than Pluto ignited the debate about the definition of a planet. For a time, NASA referred to Eris as the "10th planet", but in the end, both Eris and Pluto became dwarf planets.
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