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Hi`iaka and Namaka, two of the daughters of Haumea
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What are haumea's moons called?
They are Hiʻiaka and Namaka.
What dwarf planet with two moons?
Haumea has two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka.
What dwarf planet has 2 moons?
The dwarf planet Haumea (located in the Kuiper Belt) has 2 moons.
How many moons does haumea have?
A day on Haumea is very short, since its rotational period is just 3.9155 hours. It takes 284.12 Earth-years (103774 Earth-days) for it to completely orbit the Sun, which means there are 636,081.216 Haumean days in one Haumean year.
What does the planet Haumea name mean?
Haumea is named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth. Its two known moons, Hi'iaka and Namaka, are also named after characters of Hawaiian mythology.
What is haumea named after?
Haumea is named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth. The names of its two moons, Hi'iaka and Namaka, also have their origins in Hawaiian mythology.
What planet is a dwarf planet with two moons?
As far as we know Haumea in the Kuiper belt has two moons, Hi'aka and Namaka.
What dwarf planets have moons?
Ceres: No moons Pluto: 3 moons (Nix, Hydra, and Charon) Haumea: 2 moons (Hi'ika and Namaka) Makemake: No moons Eris: 1 moon (Dysncmia)
Do any of the dwarf planets have moons?
Pluto ... which I think was the first member of the newly-defined "dwarf planet" category ... has two known moons.
Is the statement true that unlike planets a dwarf planet cannot have moons?
No. The statement is shocking in its glaring falseness. Pluto has been labeled a dwarf planet, and to this date, five of its moons have been discovered. Also, Haumea (2), Makemake (1) and Eris (1) have moons. Even some asteroids may have tiny moons. One NEO (Near Earth Object), 1994-CC, is an asteroid about 700 meters wide with two orbiting asteroidal moons a few meters across.
Which planet has two moons in the solar system?
Mars has only two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Joupiter has 63, Saturn has 62, Uranus has 27, Neptune has 13, the dwarf planet Pluto has 5, and Haumea has two.
Haumea?
A dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy objects beyond Neptune. It is roughly the same size as Pluto and is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. Haumea has a football-like shape and has two known moons, Namaka and Hi’iaka.
