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 …

Sep 15, 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 …

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 …

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 …

In the early Solar System, Haumea may have been much like Pluto, composed half of rock and half of water. Billions of years ago, a large object is theorized to collided with the body, …

Aug 26, 2024 · Discovery of Haumea: Haumea’s discovery in 2004 involved astronomers at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, solidifying its connection to Hawaiian culture. Haumea …

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, …

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 …

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 …