Haumea

This article is about the dwarf planet. For the Hawaiian goddess, see Haumea (mythology). For other uses, see Haumea (disambiguation).

136108 Haumea
Low-resolution Hubble Space Telescope image of Haumea and its two moons, Hiʻiaka (top) and Namaka (bottom), June 2015
Discovery
Discovered by
Discovery date
  • 7 March 2003 (Ortiz)
  • 28 December 2004 (Brown)
Designations
(136108) Haumea
Pronunciation/haʊˈmeɪ.ə, ˌhɑːuː-/[nb 1]
Named after
Haumea
2003 EL61
AdjectivesHaumean[7]
Symbol🝻 (mostly astrological)
Orbital characteristics[8]
Epoch 17 December 2020 (JD 2459200.5)
Uncertainty parameter 2
Observation arc65 years and 291 days (24033 days)
Earliest precovery date22 March 1955
Aphelion51.585 AU (7.7170 Tm)
Perihelion34.647 AU (5.1831 Tm)
43.116 AU (6.4501 Tm)
Eccentricity0.19642
283.12 yr (103,410 days)[9]
4.53 km/s[nb 2]
218.205°
0° 0m 12.533s / day
Inclination28.2137°
122.167°
≈ 1 June 2133[10]
±2 days
239.041°
Known satellites2 (Hiʻiaka and Namaka)
Physical characteristics
Dimensions
  • ≈ 2,100 × 1,680 × 1,074 km[nb 3][11]
  • 2,322±60 × 1,704±8 × 1,026±32 km[nb 4][12]
≈ 8.14×106 km2[nb 3][13]
Volume≈ 1.98×109 km3[nb 3][14]
0.0018 Earths
Mass(4.006±0.040)×1021 kg[15]
0.00066 Earths
Mean density
  • ≈ 2.018 g/cm3[nb 3]
  • 1.885±0.080 g/cm3 to 1.757 g/cm3[nb 5]
Equatorial surface gravity
0.93 m/s2 at poles
to 0.24 m/s2 at longest axis
Equatorial escape velocity
1 km/s at poles
to 0.71 km/s at longest axis
3.915341±0.000005 h[16]
(0.163139208 d)
≈ 126° (to orbit; assumed)
81.2° or 78.9° (to ecliptic)[nb 6]
North pole right ascension
282.6°±1.2°[17]: 3174 
North pole declination
−13.0°±1.3° or −11.8°±1.2°[17]: 3174 
Temperature< 50 K[20]
17.3 (opposition)[23][24]
0.428±0.011 (V-band) [16] · 0.2 [9]

Haumea (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit.[25] It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory, and formally announced in 2005 by a team headed by José Luis Ortiz Moreno at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, who had discovered it that year in precovery images taken by the team in 2003. From that announcement, it received the provisional designation 2003 EL61.

On 17 September 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. Precovery images of Haumea have been identified back to 22 March 1955.[9]

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 are consistent with it being a Jacobi ellipsoid (the shape it would be if it were a dwarf planet), with its major axis twice as long as its minor. In October 2017, astronomers announced the discovery of a ring system around Haumea, representing the first ring system discovered for a trans-Neptunian object and a dwarf planet.

Haumea's gravity was until recently thought to be sufficient for it to have relaxed into hydrostatic equilibrium, though that is now unclear. Haumea's elongated shape together with its rapid rotation, rings, 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 (the Haumea family) that includes several large trans-Neptunian objects and Haumea's two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka.

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