Haumea spins so fast that its shape is more football-like than round.
in the asteroid belt. At that time, it was given the name Haumea after the Hawaiian goddess of fertility., takes about 285 years to orbit the sun, and its distance from Earth varies from 34 to 51 astronomical units, or AU . As it's reaching perigee, that puts it at a distance of 34 AU tonight.
Though its orbit might be quite slow, Haumea rotates extremely fast — it takes just four hours to complete one rotation. Because of the centrifugal force it experiences due to this rotational speed, Haumea is stretched out like a football instead of round like most other planets and dwarf planets. Haumea is also the only known dwarf planet to have rings, and it also has two small moons, Namaka and Hi'iaka, which are the daughters of Haumea in Hawaiian mythology.
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