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Learn about the planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System with the Nirks! Meet Haumea! The 3rd episode of the “Meet the Dwarf Planets” series! You’ve met the planets with Vincent, and now it’s time to get to know the Dwarf Planets! In this episode we’ll meet dwarf planet Haumea. Haumea is one of the most bizarre dwarf planets being oddly shaped and having a ring! Haumea has two moons and all of them are named after goddesses from Hawaiian mythology. Join Haumea in the Kuiper Belt and learn all about this incredibly strange dwarf planet. Haumea is accompanied by all her friends: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the Sun. Enjoy this fun, energetic, educational song series and meet Haumea, up close and personal!
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Lyrics:
CHOURS: I am dwarf planet Haumea
The 3rd dwarf planet from our Sun
Of all of the dwarf planets
I am the most bizarre one

My shape is different, because I’m not round
I’m shaped more like an egg, your scientists have found

The reason for my very odd shape
Is because my spin is turbo-powered
I have a very fast rotation rate
1 day on me is less than 4 hours

It’s because of my super-fast rotation
That I got stretched out at both my ends

My days are short but my years are long
Because I am so very far away
285 Earth years to orbit the sun
That’s about 640,000 of my days

That means I have to wait a very long time
Until I have the next birthday party of mine

CHORUS

I’m known as a trans-Neptunian object
Which means I live further out than Neptune gets

I live way out in the Kuiper Belt
But I never get lonely
I have two moons orbiting me
We’re named from Hawaiian Mythology

I’m named after the Hawaiian goddess
Hawaii’s mother and guardian

My moons are named after her daughters
Namaka is the name of my inner moon
Named after the goddess of the sea and water
Hi’iaka is the name of my outer moon

Hi’iaka is named after the goddess of hula dance
We travel together through this great expanse

CHORUS

Here is another quite peculiar thing
I was the first Kuiper Belt object discovered to have a ring

I was part of collision long ago
Which caused my super-fast spinning
And that collision was probably responsible
For the creation of my moons and ring

I also have a giant red spot
Which astronomers believe is where I was hit

I am not particularly large, no
Pluto and I are similar in size
But, If you look up through a telescope
You can sometimes see us both with your own eyes

I’m the 3rd brightest Kuiper Belt object you can see
After Pluto and Makemake the brightest one is me

CHORUS

My rocky surface is covered in ice
It reflects the light making me very bright

I’m made up of mostly rock and ice
And my daughter Hi’iaka takes after me
She also has a crystalline-ice surface
Making us both reflective and shiny

I was discovered in December 2004
And, before I was given my official name
Astronomers referred to me as Santa
And that became my nickname
They also nicknamed both my moons here
Rudolph and Blitzen after Santa’s reindeer

In 2008 an official dwarf planet is what I became
And that is when I received my official name

CHORUS

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