Liftoff of the CRS-29 mission carrying food, supplies, science and much more to the International Space Station this evening (10/11) Jerry Pike Photography for SpaceX FrontPage
Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory in the United States and disputably also in 2005 by a team headed by José Luis Ortiz Moreno at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain.
Quick Facts
A day on Haumea is about four Earth hours.
It takes 285 Earth years for Haumea to orbit the Sun.
Haumea's radius is about 385 miles or 620 kilometers.
Haumea has two known moons: Namaka is the inner moon, and Hi'iaka.