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 to be a dwarf …

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 thousands of …

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 Observatory. …

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 it and is …

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 Palomar …

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 composed of almost …

Jan 6, 2024 · Dwarf planet Haumea – which lies in the distant Kuiper Belt and takes its name from a Hawaiian fertility goddess – wasn’t discovered until 2005. But Haumea has a number of distinctive …

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, Haumea is …

Aug 16, 2025 · Haumea's fast rotation and moons reveal insights into celestial evolution. Haumea is a dwarf planet found in the region beyond Neptune, known as the Kuiper...

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 plutoids and it is …