Haumea is an oval-shaped Kuiper Belt dwarf planet that completes one rotation in only about four hours, among the fastest rotations of any large body in the solar system, which has stretched it into a football-like shape.
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Diameter (km)Equatorial diameter; Haumea's rapid rotation gives it an elongated, non-spherical shape rather than a single true diameter. Orbital Distance43 AU, about 6.5 billion km, from the Sun 1 Discovery Year Connections
Orbits
Source NASA Solar System Exploration
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1. NASA Solar System Exploration
National Aeronautics and Space Administrationscience.nasa.gov, Dwarf Planets: Haumea
Haumea is an oval-shaped dwarf planet that is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system.
Entity description, haumea catalogue classification
Haumea is an oval-shaped Kuiper Belt dwarf planet that completes one rotation in only about four hours, among the fastest rotations of any large body in the solar system, which has stretched it into a football-like shape.
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In Group: Trans-Neptunian Dwarf Planets, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Trans-Neptunian Dwarf Planets, Lead sentence
Haumea (minor-planet number 136108) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit.
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