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Video: Dwarf Planet shrouded in Ice

VIVAnews -dwarf planet Haumea, strange, and at least one of the two months she had thought to contain ice.

With a width of 1960 kilometers, planet shaped oval is the fifth dwarf planet belonging to the Sun we identified. The Planet is approximately 35 times more than the distance of the Sun with the Earth has a weighting of one third the mass of Pluto.

Both revolve around the Sun, the orbit of the planet is located in the vicinity of the Kuiper belt, right behind Pluto. The oval is likely caused by its rotation period is a very fast i.e. 3.9 hours.

He was first discovered in 2003 by a group of United States astronomer at the Cerro Tololo inter-American Observatory. Initially he was named 2003 EL61, before renamed Haumea, the Hawaiian name of a goddess who personifies the fertility of the population.

Unlike other objects in the Kuiper belt, Haumea is not composed of a mixture of ice and rock in the amount of the draw, but rather a crust of ice surrounding the Rocky interior. The following video: Dwarf Planet shrouded in Ice. (Source: Space.com, umi)

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