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Haumea

Dwarf planet · Dwarf planet with a ring and two moons

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Haumea
Picture: Renerpho, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

About Haumea

On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Haumea was 49.8 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 6.91 hours to reach it.

It goes round the Sun once every 282.1 years, at an average distance of 43.016 AU.

It is about 1,560 km across.

The map lists it as a dwarf planet and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).

Key numbers

Semi-major axis43.016 AU
Orbital period282.1 years
Eccentricity0.1955
Inclination28.21°
Radius780.0 km
Distance from the Sun49.8 AU

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.

From Wikipedia

Haumea (minor-planet number 136108) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Haumea, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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