Definitions for Haumea
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1. Haumeanoun

   The goddess of fertility and childbirth.

2. Haumeanoun

   A dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, roughly one-third the mass of Pluto.

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1. Haumea

   Haumea (minor-planet designation 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory in the United States and disputably also in 2005 by a team headed by José Luis Ortiz Moreno at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, though the latter claim has been contested. On September 17, 2008, it was named after Haumea, the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth, under the expectation by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) that it would prove to be a dwarf planet. Nominal estimates make it the third-largest known trans-Neptunian object, after Eris and Pluto, though the uncertainty in best-fit modeling slightly overlaps with the larger size estimates for Makemake.Haumea's mass is about one-third that of Pluto, and 1/1400 that of Earth. Although its shape has not been directly observed, calculations from its light curve are consistent with it being a Jacobi ellipsoid (the shape it would be if it were a dwarf planet), with its major axis twice as long as its minor. In October 2017, astronomers announced the discovery of a ring system around Haumea, representing the first ring system discovered for a trans-Neptunian object. Haumea's gravity was until recently thought to be sufficient for it to have relaxed into hydrostatic equilibrium, though that is now unclear. Haumea's elongated shape together with its rapid rotation, rings, and high albedo (from a surface of crystalline water ice), are thought to be the consequences of a giant collision, which left Haumea the largest member of a collisional family that includes several large trans-Neptunian objects and Haumea's two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka.

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1. Haumea

   In Hawaiian mythology, Haumea is the goddess of fertility and childbirth. She is the mother of Pele, Kāne Milohai, Kā-moho-aliʻi, Nāmakaokaha'i, Kapo and HiʻiakaikapolioPele. She was a powerful being, and gave birth to many creatures, some after turning herself into a young woman to marry her children and grandchildren. She was finally killed by Kaulu. The Hawaiian goddess is not to be confused with a Māori god named Haumia or Haumia-tiketike, the god of wild plants and berries; he is the god of wild food, as opposed to Rongo, the god of cultivated food. On 17 September 2008 the International Astronomical Union announced it named the fifth known dwarf planet in the Solar System "Haumea" after the Hawaiian goddess. The planet's two moons were named after Haumea's daughters: Hiʻiaka, after the Hawaiian goddess said to have been born from the mouth of Haumea, and Namaka, after the water spirit said to have been born from Haumea's body.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Haumea in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Haumea in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Haumea
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Haumea