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Why I'm Called - Haumea

I am Haumea. I am a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. My name was given in 2008. I was named by IAU (after disputed discovery by Mike Brown's team in 2004 and José

Newslink: Scientists Reveal New Details of Dwarf Planet Haumea's Elusive Ring

The football-shaped dwarf planet Haumea, which is surrounded by an almost perfectly circular ring of particles, is the most distant ringed object in the solar system.

Haumea, the egg-shaped dwarf planet

Far away from the sun lies the Kuiper Belt, a collection of massive icy objects slowly orbiting the sun. These objects lie past the orbit of Neptune, with the belt's