Haumea
136108 Haumea (2003 EL61)
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Physical data
- Mean radius
- 715 km
- Equatorial radius
- 870 km
- Mass
- 4,006 × 10²⁴ kg
- Density
- 2.6 g/cm³
- Surface gravity
- 0.35 m/s²
- Escape velocity
- 0.78 km/s
- Rotation period
- 0.1631 days
- Orbital period
- 284.81 years
- Albedo
- 0.72
- Absolute magnitude V(1,0)
- 0.2 mag
- Absolute magnitude H
- 0.14 mag
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA JPL Small-Body Database · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TNO — TransNeptunian Object
- Semi-major axis
- 43.1 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.194
- Inclination
- 28.2°
- Perihelion distance
- 34.7 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 51.4 AU
- Orbital period
- 103,000 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2500416.600
- Earth MOID
- 33.8 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- Its diameter is about 11% of Earth's (radius 715 km ÷ Earth's 6,371 km).
- One orbit takes about 103,000 Earth days (about 282 years).
- Sunlight needs about 6 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 43.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.