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 ...

136108 Haumea (symbol ) [1] is a dwarf planet in the Solar System. Its discovery was announced in 2005 by astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz of the United States, and J. L. Ortiz of Spain. It was classified as a dwarf planet on September 17, 2008.

Haumea is a dwarf planet whose orbit extends beyond the orbit of Neptune. NASA JPL has not classified Haumea as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth. Haumea orbits the sun every 103,000 days (282.00 years), coming as close as 34.32 AU and reaching as far as 51.46 AU from the sun.

Jan 1, 2000 · 136108 Haumea is in the constellation of Bootes, at a distance of 7,376,769,622.0 kilometers from Earth. The current Right Ascension is 14h 41m 51s and the Declination is +14° 24’ 32” (apparent coordinates). The magnitude of 136108 Haumea is 17.27 (data provided by JPL Horizons). Loading map...

136108 Haumea will pass close to the Sun in the sky as its orbit carries it around the far side of the solar system from the Earth. At closest approach, 136108 Haumea will appear at a separation of only 27° from the Sun, making it totally unobservable for several weeks while it …

Oct 12, 2017 · Observations of a stellar occultation of Haumea, one of the four known trans-Neptunian dwarf planets, constrain its size, shape and density, and reveal a ring coplanar with Haumea’s largest moon.

Pinilla-Alonso, N., Brunetto, R., Licandro, J., Gil-Hutton, R., Roush, T. L., & Strazzulla, G. 2009, Astronomy and Astrophysics The surface of (136108) Haumea (2003 EL{61}), the largest carbon-depleted object in the trans-Neptunian belt

From Virginia Beach , 136108 Haumea is visible in the morning sky, becoming accessible around 22:58, when it reaches an altitude of 21° above your eastern horizon. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 03:51, 67° above your southern horizon.

Dec 28, 2004 · Haumea, officially designated as 136108 Haumea is the third dwarf planet from the sun. It is known for its strange shape, because it spins so fast on its axis that it flattens out into an ellipsoid shape. It was discovered on December 28, 2004. It has two known moons called Hi'iaka and Namaka...

Dec 17, 2018 · 136108 Haumea (2003 EL61) is a Dwarf Planet, located in the Kuiper Belt, an area of space past the orbit of Neptune. Haumea's name and number is allocated to it by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), part of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.