Haumea (dwarf planet) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-29

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00:01:35 1 History
00:01:44 1.1 Discovery
00:03:57 1.2 Name
00:06:14 2 Classification
00:07:12 3 Orbit
00:08:46 4 Rotation
00:09:37 5 Physical characteristics
00:10:07 5.1 Size, shape, and composition
00:14:35 5.2 Surface
00:17:33 6 Ring
00:19:03 7 Satellites Hiʻiaka and Namaka
00:21:41 8 Collisional family
00:24:01 9 Exploration
00:24:59 10 See also



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Haumea (minor-planet designation 136108 Haumea) is a possible dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory in the United States and independently in 2005, by a team headed by José Luis Ortiz Moreno at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, though the latter claim has been contested. On September 17, 2008, it was recognized as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and named after Haumea, the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth, though subsequent observations cast doubt on its shape being consistent with hydrostatic equilibrium (and thus perhaps not a dwarf planet).
Haumea's mass is about one-third that of Pluto, and 1/1400 that of Earth. Although its shape has not been directly observed, calculations from its light curve indicate that it is a Jacobi ellipsoid, with its major axis twice as long as its minor. Its gravity was until recently thought to be sufficient for it to have relaxed into hydrostatic equilibrium.  Haumea's elongated shape together with its rapid rotation and high albedo (from a surface of crystalline water ice), are thought to be the consequences of a giant collision, which left Haumea the largest member of a collisional family that includes several large trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and Haumea's two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka.  Haumea is currently the third-largest known trans-Neptunian object, after Eris and Pluto.