Dwarf-system satellite
Namaka
Haumea’s inner moon on a more eccentric, inclined path.
Namaka is smaller and closer to Haumea than Hiʻiaka. Its orbit is both more eccentric and more inclined, making the compact system dynamically richer than a set of nested circular tracks.
- Orbit representation
- Representative mean elements
- Surface
- procedural reconstruction
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 85 km
- Mean orbital distance
- 25,657 km
- Orbital period
- 18.278 days
- Eccentricity
- 0.249
- Inclination
- 13°Haumea equatorial plane
- Orbit plane
- Source-backed
System portrait
A small moon with a complicated orbit
The contrast with Hiʻiaka is carried by actual orbital parameters. Helios keeps the unresolved node and periapsis orientation representative rather than random.
System geometry
Namaka around Haumea
Namaka orbits at a mean distance of 25,657 km with a period of 18.278 days. Its catalogued eccentricity is 0.249, and the catalogued inclination is 13° relative to Haumea equatorial plane. Missing angular orientation stays explicitly representative.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
The non-circular mean orbit and 13° inclination to Haumea's equator are used without inventing missing node/periapsis angles.
Reference-guided visual reconstruction based on cited mission records; no source raster is reproduced.
Provenance