Haumea is the matron goddess of the island of Hawaiʻi, where the Mauna Kea Observatory is located.

2025年3月12日 · Haumea is an oval-shaped dwarf planet that is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. The fast spin distorts Haumea's shape, making this dwarf planet look like a football. Two teams claim credit for discovering Haumea citing evidence from observations made in 2003 and 2004.

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 miniature icy worlds which formed early in the history of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

2022年10月14日 · Using computer simulations, scientists based at NASA have pieced together the story of how the dwarf planet Haumea, found in the Kuiper Belt of icy worlds beyond the orbit of outermost planet Neptune, became one of the most unusual objects in the solar system. Nearly the size of Pluto, Haumea is strange in several ways.

Haumea (Hawaiian: [həuˈmɛjə]) is the goddess of fertility and childbirth in Hawaiian mythology. She is the mother of many important deities, such as Pele , Kāne Milohai , Kāmohoaliʻi , Nāmaka , Kapo , and Hiʻiaka .

6 天之前 · 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. Originally called 2003 EL61, Haumea is named for the Hawaiian goddess of …

2019年10月8日 · Haumea is the first trans-Neptunian object discovered to have a ring system. Because Haumea has two moons, its mass can be calculated, and it was estimated to be one-third that of Pluto or 1/1400 that of Earth. Due to its fast …