Haumea is a dwarf planet that orbits the sun far beyond Neptune. It is about the same size as Pluto and has two moons. One of its notable characteristics is how fast it spins on its axis.

In terms of sheer weirdness, few objects in the solar system can compete with the dwarf planet Haumea. It has a strange shape, unusual brightness, two moons, and a wild rotation. Its unique ...

Also like Pluto, Haumea has moons — at least two, Hi'iaka and Namaka. [Meet the Dwarf Planets of Our Solar System (Slideshow)] Haumea is at least twice as long in one direction as it is in the ...

Earth and Mars likely got their moons from giant impacts, along with large Kuiper belt objects with moonslike Pluto, Haumea, Eris, and Makemake. In fact, it’s speculated that giant impacts are ...

The moons' orbits told us something about Haumea's mass. The images also show that Haumea has an odd, potato-like shape, technically a "triaxial ellipsoid." To understand that term, think of a ...

Besides having two moons, Haumea also has a very faint ring system and is covered almost exclusively in crystalline water ice, making it an excellent candidate to investigate whether it might have ...

Eventually forming what we see today as the Kuiper belt.” Proudfoot thinks this massive solar system-wide upheaval, could have led to a collision between Haumea and a large moon, creating nearby ...

While watching a tiny planet eclipse a very distant star, astronomers made an unexpected discovery: The egg-shaped world hosts a 43-mile-wide ring of particles and debris. That egg, called Haumea ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the ...

So which planets in our solar system have rings?All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these ...

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