Haumea: The Strangest Dwarf Planet Of All

This is one of the strangest objects in the solar system, it is classified as a dwarf planet, but it is not round.

It has a ring of asteroids like Saturn's, but not as visible. Despite being very small, it has two moons; it has a flattened shape that gives it the appearance of an egg and spins faster than any other object in the solar system.
This is Haumea, the strangest dwarf planet of all. Would you like to know why astronomers are so intrigued by this object?
Let's find out! 
Haumea is a dwarf planet that lies in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy doughnut-shaped bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune, much like the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but farther from the Sun; for that reason, all objects in that place are icy and often covered in ice.
Objects like Haumea that lie beyond the orbit of Neptune are classified as trans-Neptunian objects; these are very difficult to study due to their small size, low brightness, and enormous distances that separate us from them
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Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:42 What is Haumea?
02:40 An irregular shape
05:20 Moons of a dwarf planet
07:49 Haumea isn't alone
09:02 A dwarf planet with rings

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[JungSooLeee]

Major respect to the software image guy that brought us a representation if what Haumea looks like.

[Mason_Gamer]

Why it's weird:
1: It's shape is a thin oval
2: It has its own pair of rings

[richardmercer]

When you're so far out, you have to be Strange to get any attention...🙄

[TheShinedownfan]

The Kuiper Belt is NOT "a region of icy, donut shaped bodies, " it is a donut shaped region of icy bodies. There's a difference.

[kaisertrinityt.m.i.s]

in my opinion Haumea is the Easter Egg of the Solar System

[paulgr]

New Horizons was launched in 2006 and reached Pluto in 2015. So as you can imagine there is no way to have taken a picture of Pluto in 2003.

[animemanXLK]

somewere out there on the edge of our solar system is a tiny little egg shaped dwarf planet with it's own ring system and two orbiting moons. It almost sounds like something out of the discworld novels.

[hightierplayers]

The whole of space will re-define "weird" the more discoveries/visits/studies are made.

[mm-dwrr]

Another great presentation - thanks Team ❤

[nigeldepledge]

New Horizons didn't encounter Pluto in 2003. It flew by the Pluto - Charon system in 2015.

[krist]

So if we don’t have any quality pictures of this object, how do we know it’s egg shaped? Also, how do we know how quickly it rotates??

[williammay]

Fascinating to see why the 2 inner most don't have a moon....

[AliceI]

My guess as to why Mercury and Venus do not have moons is because they are so close to the Sun. I would think that the sun's gravitational pull would be strong enough to strip away any moons or other satellites that those two planets could have attracted at any point. Anyways that's just a guess but there it is.

[Najakeeper]

Elongating Earth and Pluto to look like Haumea? Video budgets being cut? ;)

[drewt]

I smell a probe mission being planned... smells like money on fire

[athrunzala]

Given how unique Haumea is I would want it to be protected as a Space National Park/Treasue. No landers on it or any ships visiting it to disrupt the orbit of it's rings which would likely be delicate, only a small probe of 100 kg or so should be aloud to study it from a distance so not to risk disturbing it's beautiful dance

[LoitersWithIntent]

I want to know why Venus and mercury don't have any moons

[RorenaPasere-unzu]

Mercury and Venus has no sattelites because now billions of years ago, Venus had Mercury as a moon

[robertbaskin]

Yes why doesn’t mercury or Venus have moons