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- proper noun Hawaiian mythology The goddess of
fertility andchildbirth . - proper noun A
dwarf planet in theKuiper belt , roughly one-third the mass ofPluto .
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Radioactivity and gravity may be why the strange football-shaped dwarf planet known as Haumea and its moons are unexpectedly sheathed in crystalline ice, shining in space, researchers suggest.
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Many researchers believe there was a collision that occurred one billion years ago between a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt known as Haumea and another object that caused Haumea's icy mantle to break into a dozen or so smaller bodies, including 55636.
Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News 2010
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Many researchers believe there was a collision that occurred one billion years ago between a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt known as Haumea and another object that caused Haumea's icy mantle to break into a dozen or so smaller bodies, including 55636.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Many researchers believe there was a collision that occurred one billion years ago between a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt known as Haumea and another object that caused Haumea's icy mantle to break into a dozen or so smaller bodies, including 55636.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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It will be called Haumea, after the goddess of childbirth and fertility in Hawaiian mythology.
TechNudge 2008
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Named after a Hawaiian mother goddess, Haumea also must have suffered a collision in its past, one that sent large shards of ice, including two moons, into its orbital track around the sun.
Dwarf planets Pluto, Eris battle for a spot in a vast universe 2011
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The highly tilted orbit of Haumea and elongated one of Sedna suggest something even more dramatic perhaps shook up the early comet belt, such as a supernova blast from a nearby star's implosion.
Dwarf planets Pluto, Eris battle for a spot in a vast universe 2011
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The few largest ones, including Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris have one crucial feature that distinguishes them from the other objects in the Kuiper Belt.
SAVE PLUTO!: SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES » Sociological Images 2009
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There are several other spherical Kuiper Belt Objects that should also be considered planets–Haumea, Makemake, and Eris–as well as Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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The brothers return to Oahu, and Kaulu kills Haumea, a female spirit, at Niuhelewai, by catching her in a net got from Makalii.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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