dwarf planet
Haumea
A rapidly rotating, elongated dwarf planet.
Haumea's fast spin produces an unusual elongated shape; it also has a ring and moons.
- Orbit representation
- verified fallback
- Surface
- procedural reconstruction
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 780 km
- Semi-major axis
- 43.218 AU
- Orbital period
- 284.117 Earth yearsKeplerian estimate from the catalogued semi-major axis.
- Eccentricity
- 0.191
- Inclination
- 28.19°
- Visual geometry
- ellipsoid
Orbital character
An orbit lifted well beyond the planetary plane
Haumea follows a catalogued path with a 43.218 AU semi-major axis, eccentricity 0.191, and 28.19° inclination. The resulting two-body period estimate is 284.117 Earth years; the representation notes below state the source epoch and precision boundary used by Explore.
Catalogue context
Haumea among its nearest Helios peers
Haumea is linked with Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Quaoar, Gonggong, Sedna, Orcus inside the Helios outer-system selection. The grouping keeps adjacent reading coherent; it does not imply that these bodies share the same composition, origin, or present physical state.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
A bundled frozen six-element preview preserves the documented body scope. It was not freshly re-fetched from SBDB in this build environment and must not be presented as an accurate or current ephemeris.
Reference-guided visual reconstruction based on cited mission records; no source raster is reproduced.
Provenance