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Score breakdown
· 7 badges
93 pts · Anomaly
Anomaly120 pts → Mythic
Giant body (>500 km)+22
Haumea, the spinning egg+22
Dwarf planet+16
Trans-Neptunian object+12
Has a proper name+8
Has a ring system+8
Has moons+5
Total score93
27 more points to reach Mythic.
Badges
⚪Dwarf planet· +16
🏔️Giant body (>500 km)· +22
🏷️Has a proper name· +8
⭕Has a ring system· +8
🌙Has moons· +5
🌨️Trans-Neptunian object· +12
🏈Haumea, the spinning egg· +22
✨ Trivia
Hard to believe
🥇Round under its own weight. Big enough that its own gravity has pulled it into a sphere — most of its neighbours are potato-shaped rubble.
What it actually is
🛸Its orbit family. A trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper Belt, out where the Sun is little more than the brightest star in a very dark sky.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 283 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 34.72 and 51.54 AU from the Sun.
🛰️Its moons. It is orbited by 2 known moons.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 47% as wide as our Moon.
🚶Walk around it. Walking its equator at a steady pace, eight hours a day, would take about 4.2 months.
🌍Against Earth. It is only 13% of Earth's width — you could pack about 476 of it inside our planet.
Properties
aphelion au
51.5403
color
#e8e3d8
diameter km
1632
eccentricity
0.195
inclination
28.21
name
Haumea
named
yes
num moons
2
orbit class
TNO
orbital period days
103468
perihelion au
34.7197
radius km
816
rings
yes
semi major au
43.13
About Haumea
Haumea is an anomaly dwarf planet. It completes an orbit every 103,468 days and swings within 34.72 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
A trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper Belt, out where the Sun is little more than the brightest star in a very dark sky.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Haumea is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Haumea is an anomaly dwarf planet
Haumea scores 93 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 27 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Dwarf planet, Giant body (>500 km), Has a proper name, Has a ring system, Has moons, Trans-Neptunian object and Haumea, the spinning egg — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.
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