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    Haumea (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike...
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  • Haumea (Hawaiian: [həuˈmɛjə]) is the goddess of fertility and childbirth in Hawaiian mythology. She is the mother of many important deities, such as Pele...
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    outer moon of the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Haumea. It is named after one of the daughters of Haumea, Hiʻiaka, the patron goddess of the Big Island...
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    planet Haumea. Discovered in 2005, it is named after Nāmaka, the goddess of the sea in Hawaiian mythology and one of the daughters of Haumea. Namaka...
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    The dwarf planet Haumea has two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka, named after Hawaiian goddesses. These small moons were discovered in 2005, from observations...
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    talk at which he had planned to announce the discovery of Haumea; the abstract referred to Haumea by a code that was the same code used in the online telescope...
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    The Haumea or Haumean family is the only identified trans-Neptunian collisional family; that is, the only group of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with...
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  • Look up Haumea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt located beyond Neptune's orbit. Haumea may also refer to:...
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    Species: Haumea loxoides (Sowerby Iii, 1882) Haumea minuta (Linnaeus, 1758) Haumea rehderi (Grau, 1960) "Haumea Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938". www.gbif.org...
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    largest candidates are dwarf planets – in rough order of size, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Ceres, Orcus, and Sedna. Considerable uncertainty...
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  • Ring system (section Haumea)
    close to the 3:1 resonance with Haumea's rotation, which is located at a radius of 2,285±8 km. It is well within Haumea's Roche limit, which would lie at...
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    period is 306 years, more than Pluto's 248 years and Haumea's 283 years. Both Makemake and Haumea are currently far from the ecliptic (at an angular distance...
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    Sun, the ones generally agreed among astronomers are Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna. Ceres is the largest object...
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    canoe launched in 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Kihawahine and Haumea both were goddesses worshiped in Hawaiian temples. The war between the two...
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    the Solar System has at least nine dwarf planets: Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna. There are a vast number of...
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  • older sister of Pele-honua-mea. She is the daughter of Ku-waha-ilo and Haumea, whose other children are Pele, the Hiʻiaka sisters, the Kama brothers,...
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    day as Makemake and two days after Haumea, due in part to events that would later lead to controversy about Haumea. The search team had been systematically...
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    by astronomers are also known to have natural satellites: Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, and Eris. As of January 2022, there are 447...
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  • directly, 15760 Albion. The most massive TNO known is Eris, followed by Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Gonggong. More than 80 satellites have been discovered in...
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    not habitable, due to its extremely low temperatures. The same goes for Haumea and Eris. Water on terrestrial planets of the Solar System Aguilera Mochón...
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  • Haumea was the first of the IAU-recognized dwarf planets to be discovered since Pluto in 1930. Its naming as a dwarf planet was delayed by several years...
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  • brother Pele and Hiʻiaka (among others) by Haumea. He is the god of thunder. He was born from the mouth of Haumea. During thunderstorms followers of Kanehekili...
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    objects that astronomers generally accept as dwarf planets: Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, and Makemake. Some of the Solar System's moons, such as Neptune's...
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    2002 TX300, (55565) 2002 AW197, (55637) 2002 UX25 486958 Arrokoth 136108 Haumea was provisionally listed as a cubewano by the Minor Planet Center in 2006...
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  • inner Solar System and five in the trans-Neptunian region: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Quaoar. Only Pluto and Ceres have been confirmed to be in...
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  • come into use, particularly Eris (the hand of Eris, ⯰, but also ⯱), Sedna, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar and Orcus which are in Unicode. All (except...
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    Pluto's natural satellites Charon Twotinos Cubewanos (classical objects) Haumea, a dwarf planet Namaka Hiʻiaka Quaoar, a dwarf planet Weywot Makemake, a...
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    discovery of a second moon orbiting 45 Eugenia. Also in 2005, the dwarf planet Haumea was discovered to have two moons, making it the second trans-Neptunian object...
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  • Ortiz Moreno 2 1967–pres. J. L. Ortiz; disc: MPC, unofficial discoverer Haumea J. L. Ortiz (4436) Michel Ory 251 1966–pres. M. Ory; amateur M. Ory (67979)...
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  • of Jupiter, 53 of Saturn, 22 of Uranus, 12 of Neptune, 5 of Pluto, 2 of Haumea, and 1 each of Eris, Gonggong, Quaoar, and Orcus. Names have also been given...
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