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HAUMEA – NEW DWARF PLANET by Roy Mackinnon
The International Astronomical Union has named 2003 EL61 as ‘Haumea’ after the Mother Earth Goddess which is part of the Hawaiian corpus of mythology. The announcement was made on 17th. September, 2008. The IAU also stated that Haumea would become the fifth Dwarf Planet. The other four are Pluto, Ceres, Eris and Makemake. Haumea is a Cubewano or one of many asteroids orbiting out just beyond Pluto but everything about the Dwarf Planet is exceptional. Firstly, there was argument with regard to who discovered the Dwarf Planet. The team of Joce Luis Ortiz, Castro and Santos-Sanz of the Spanish Sierra Nevada Observatory claimed to have discovered Haumea but Michael Brown with Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz believe that Ortiz must have accessed their computer records because Brown and team had discovered Haumea some time earlierand were correctly determining the necessary orbital parameters in order to supply the IAU with these. The International Astronomical Union has named 2003 EL61 as ‘Haumea’ after the Mother Earth Goddess which is part of the Hawaiian corpus of mythology. The announcement was made on 17th. September, 2008. The IAU also stated that Haumea would become the fifth Dwarf Planet. The other four are Pluto, Ceres, Eris and Makemake. .ccessed their computer records because Brown and team had discovered Haumea some time earlierand were correctly determining the necessary orbital parameters in order to supply the IAU with these. Since it was confirmed at Christmas time (28th December, 2004) Brown nicknamed the object Santa. His team also discovered two moons and they were nicknamed after Santa’s reindeer, Rudolph and Blitzen. It should also be noted that Santa was discovered only two days after the tragic Indian Ocean Earthquake and the tsunami which killed over a quarter of a million people. Compare these unsettling circumstances with the current events of September, 2008 with the Galveston hurricane and the global financial turmoil. The two moons have been officially named Hi’iaka and Namaka, offspring of Haumea. So much about Haumea is unusual. Firstly, it is not spherical in shape but oval, egg-like in shape. No other solar system body of comparable size has such an unusual egg-like shape. Its long axis is some 2000 kms in length. The other two dimensions are of course smaller at 1500 kms and 1000 kms. Curiously, Haumea rotates very fast (about 4 hours) on its long axis, tumbling as it were along its long axis. It also curiously has a high density at about 3 gms/cc. so it has to be made of solid rock. However, some ice has been detected and both the moons appear to be made of ice, certainly at least on their surface. Michael Brown has also noted that nearby are other smaller Trans Neptunian Objects also made of ice. This has led him to suggest that Haumea was struck by a sizeable asteroidal body causing Haumea to fragment because of the violence. Haumea orbits in some 284 years whereas Pluto orbits in 248 years. At aphelion Haumea is a distant 51.5 AU somewhat similar to Pluto but at perihelion doesn’t make Neptune’s orbital distance as does Pluto only coming in some 35 AU. The Ascending Node is at Leo 3 and Perihelion at Pisces 28. Here is a brief ephemeris – remember Haumea travels very slowly. 1930 – Leo 3: 1940 – Leo 13: 1950 – Leo 22: 1960 – Virgo 1: 1970 – Virgo 10: 1980 – Virgo 19: 1990 – Virgo 28: 2000 – Libra 7: 2010 – Libra 17. Here are some preliminary keywords as derived recently by some astrological researchers:- Research: Breakthrough: Expansion: Explosive Energy: Inner Knowing; Fertility: Collisions: Egocentric: Attention Demanding: Enormous Power.
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