Space Egg?

Dwarf planet Haumea is found in the Kuiper Belt, where most dwarf planets of the Solar System are. It spins around itself in just 3,5 hours, and so it became egg shaped. If it would spin any faster, it would spin itself apart.

[mikecrockett]

This explanation is only valid until we find a Space Chicken.

Love your channel!

[fizace]

It just looks like an egg-shaped Pluto..The color similarities are wild.

[jackmuchukot]

Haumea is so beautiful. I hope someday before I die we'll have flyby/orbit photos.

[FirstLast-Area]

Its hard for me to imagine...as an amateur astronomer...how we can find such small worlds so far off. I mean Pluto is only as as big as Australia is wide. Smaller than our moon. This dwarf is tiny

[alexhajnal]

That massive impact crater at 00:27 is quite intriguing. It seems to indicate that lighter material is a distinct thin layer over a darker bulk. Wonder what the lighter material is composed of (water ice?) and how it was deposited. A frozen atmosphere (with freeze/thaw depending on where it is in its orbit) is a possibility but that would imply the crater is *very* recent. Interesting!

[kinguq]

Cool! Check out Methone, egg-moon of Saturn. I don't quite see how rapid rotation would result in this shape, as opposed to a disk.

[Brookzee]

Wow this is amazing thanks for the share!

[JaydenSnowden]

How large is it compared to Pluto? How far away I'd it on average?

[nichevo]

Would it have killed you to spell out the name in subtitles?

[YouProbablyDontLikeMe]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone I’ve been this attracted to in my life - I think I’m gonna throw up

[Der_Gewagte]

Bro why everybody all over the world tries to make English content they can barely speak.

Weird accent.