136108 Haumea

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 Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory in the United States and disputably also 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 named after Haumea, the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth, under the expectation by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) that it would prove to be a dwarf planet. Nominal estimates make it the third-largest known trans-Neptunian object, after Eris and Pluto, and approximately the size of Uranus's moon Titania.
Category:Dwarf Planet
Category:TNO
Category:Objects In Hydrostatic Equilibrium
Category:Objects with Transient Atmospheres
Category:Objects with Natural Satellites
Category:Objects with Ring Systems
Category:Kuiper Belt Object
Category:Haumea Group
Category:Named Objects
Category:Named Minor Planets
Category:Numbered Objects
Category:Numbered Minor Planets