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post Sep 17 2008, 06:26 PM
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No, it's not Santa (or was this one Easter Bunny). Everyone's favorite egg-shaped world now has a name: Haumea, from Hawaiian mythology. Haumea's two moons have been named Hi'iaka (still one of my favorite volcanoes on Io, along with Gish Bar, Thor, and Tvashtar) and Namaka, both daughters of Haumea. Of course, this opens up the possibility that a third moon would be named Pele.

Definitely prefer this to Makemake.


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post Sep 18 2008, 08:54 AM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea_(dwarf_planet)

http://www.astro.yale.edu/smarts/smarts1.3m.html

http://pegasus.astro.yale.edu/smarts/

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