How Did Haumea Become the Fastest Spinning World?

Описание: Far beyond Neptune, in the cold darkness of the Kuiper Belt, there is a world unlike any other.
Haumea is one of the strangest dwarf planets ever discovered. It spins incredibly fast, completing a full rotation in less than four hours — so fast that its shape has stretched into an elongated oval.

But Haumea’s story doesn’t end there.

This distant world is surrounded by a ring, orbited by two moons, and believed to be the survivor of a massive collision that happened billions of years ago in the early Solar System.

In this documentary from Theories Before Sleep, we explore the mysterious origin of Haumea, its incredible rotation, its icy surface, its moons Hiʻiaka and Namaka, and what this strange dwarf planet can teach us about the violent past of our Solar System.

Out in the distant Kuiper Belt, where sunlight barely reaches, Haumea continues to spin — a frozen relic of an ancient cosmic collision.

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