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Haumea
A dwarf planet shaped like a rugby ball, and it is spinning that turned it into one: it turns once every four hours, faster than anything else its size, almost certainly after a collision that also gave it two moons and a family of fragments on similar orbits. It was the first body out here found to have a ring, in 2017; Quaoar turned out to have two of its own in 2023, so the ring is no longer unique, only early. The figure this map draws it at is a single radius for a body that is roughly 2,100 by 1,680 by 1,070 km, which is a simplification the shape itself contradicts.
- Radius
- 780 km
- Around the equator
- 4,901 km
- Mass
- 4.01 x 10^21 kg
- Compared with the Earth
- 0.001 ×
- From the Sun
- 7,442,665,813 km (-39,680 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 7,570,882,517 km (+431,691 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 7 h 1 m
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.