On 17 September 2008, it was named after Haumea, the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth and fertility, under the expectation by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) that it would prove …

Apr 29, 2025 · Dwarf planet Haumea is a member of a group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. This distant realm is populated with …

Dec 16, 2025 · Haumea, unusual dwarf planet orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper belt beyond Pluto. It was discovered in 2003 by a team of American astronomers at Cerro Tololo Inter-American …

Jun 2, 2024 · Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune in the Kepuir Belt. Its rotation is the fastest in the solar system as it completes it in just 4 hours. It has a ring that orbits around …

Haumea has two moons: The larger, Hi'iaka, is only about 1% as massive as Haumea, while the smaller, Namaka, weighs only about a tenth as much. Both moons are thought to be …

Haumea is the third closest dwarf planet to the Sun and is located beyond the orbit of Neptune. It has about 1/3 the mass of Pluto and was discovered by 2004 by a team from Caltech at the …

Oct 8, 2019 · Haumea is member of the group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune, called the Kuiper Belt. These objects are called trans-Neptunian objects or …

In the mythology of Hawaii, Haumea is the goddess of fertility and childbirth. Her children include Hi'iaka and Namaka, as well as the Hawaiian volcano and fire goddess Pele.

Oct 14, 2022 · Nearly the size of Pluto, Haumea is strange in several ways. It spins faster, by far, than anything else of its size, whirling on its axis in only four hours. Because of its fast spin, …

The Haumea or Haumean family is the only identified trans-Neptunian collisional family; that is, the only group of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with similar orbital parameters and spectra …