Dwarf planets · Dwarf planet

Haumea

About 50 AU from the Sun · Light crosses it in 0.0052 seconds

Across

1,560 km

Vs Earth

12% of Earth

Mass

0.07% of Earth

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About

Haumea is a dwarf planet beyond Neptune that spins so fast — once every 3.9 hours — that it has been stretched into an egg shape about twice as long as it is wide. It has two moons and a ring.

Spins every 3.9 hours, which has stretched it into an egg shape.

At a glance

Shape	About 2,100 × 1,700 × 1,000 km
Day	3.9 hours
Orbit	284 years
Moons	Hiʻiaka and Namaka

Did you know

1. It is the fastest-spinning large object in the Solar System.
2. Its ring, found in 2017, was the first seen around a body beyond Neptune.
3. It is named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth; its moons after her daughters.