Haumea
Friday, April 26, 2024
Haumea was discovered in March 2003 at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain. The official announcement of its discovery came in 2005, the same year its moons were discovered. Oddly-shaped Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. It completes a turn on its axis every four hours. The quick spin elongated the dwarf planet into the unique shape astronomers discovered in 2003. It is roughly the same size as Pluto. Like Pluto and Eris, Haumea orbits our Sun in the Kuiper Belt, a distant zone of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.It takes 285 Earth years for Haumea to make one orbit around our sun. -[NASA]
Changing Data
- Rises:
- Sets:
- Apparent Magnitude:
- Illumination:
- %
- Size (")
- Distance in light minutes:
- Distance in miles:
- 0
- Distance in AU:
Orbital Data
- Rotational Period:
- 0.163
- Orbital Period:
- 281.93
- Perihelion:
- 5.158 * 109 km
- Aphelion:
- 7.706 * 109 km
- Epoch:
- 2011.08.27
- Inclination:
- 28.22°
- Semi-Major Axis:
- 6.432 * 109 km
- Orbit Circumference:
- 4.001 * 1010 km
- Eccentricity:
- 0.198132061
- Ascending Node:
- 121.95489°
- Axial Tilt:
- °
- Albedo:
- Color BV:
- 0.64
- Color UV:
- Equatorial Diameter:
- 1.436 * 103 km
- Equatorial Circumference:
- 0.000 * 100 km
- Surface Area:
- 2.000 * 108 km2
- Surface Gravity:
- 0.44 m/s2
- Surface Temperature:
- Mass:
- 4.006 * 1021 kg
- Volume:
- 0.00000 * 100 km3
- Density:
- 3.0 g/cm3
- Absolute Magnitude:
- 0.2