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| Haumea, oval icy planet. (britannica.com) |
With the size of an area of 1960 kilometers wide, oval-shaped planet is the fifth dwarf planet identified belong to our own Sun. The planet is 35 times farther than the distance of the Sun to the Earth has a weight of one-third the mass of Pluto.Equally around the Sun, the planet's orbit around the Kuiper belt, just behind Pluto. The form is oval likely caused by a period of very rapid rotation that is 3.9 hours.He was first discovered in 2003 by a group of U.S. astronomers at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Initially he was named 2003 EL61, Haumea before it changed to, the name of a goddess of Hawaii residents who symbolizes fertility.
Unlike other objects in the Kuiper belt, Haumea is composed of a mixture of ice and stone in the number of draws, but the crust of ice that blanketed the rocky interior.


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