By plugging Haumea’s estimated size, mass, ... The family instead came much later, when the planet’s dense rocky structure settled in the center and became its core, ...

Now an international research team has confirmed that 75% of Haumea and 100% of Hi'iaka (which is around 400 km in diameter) are covered with crystallised water-ice (with an ordered structure) and ...

Now an international research team has confirmed that 75% of Haumea and 100% of Hi’iaka (which is around 400 km in diameter) are covered with crystallised water-ice (with an ordered structure ...

It's the first time a ring structure has been identified around an object beyond Neptune. Haumea, which was officially discovered in 2005, has an unusual egg-shaped structure, which it gets from ...

Haumea is the fastest spinning object in the solar system. The object's odd shape is a direct result of the spin. "Because of this spin, it pulls itself outward" at the equator in a bulge, Brown ...

The dwarf planet Haumea may be the weirdest object in the solar system. Now NASA researchers may finally understand how it was formed.

Haumea’s oblong shape isn’t the only weird thing about it, as it also has an extremely fast rotational speed, leading to a full revolution once every 3.9 hours.

Haumea, out in the depths of the solar system, is a rule breaker. This is a world about 1300 miles long, 1000 miles wide, and less than 700 miles high pole to pole, and it isn't alone.

Most objects with a radius over 200 miles are spherical, but Haumea is an exception. Publish Date: 11/5/24 Topic: Space + Flight Space & Flight NOVA. Share.