Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory in the United States and disputably also in 2005 by a team headed by José Luis Ortiz Moreno at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, though the latter claim has been contested. On September 17, 2008, it was named after Haumea, the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth, under the expectation by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) that it would prove to be a dwarf planet. Nominal estimates make it the third-largest known trans-Neptunian object, after Eris and Pluto, though the uncertainty in best-fit modeling slightly overlaps with the larger size estimates for Makemake.

Haumea's mass is about one-third that of Pluto, and 1/1400 that of Earth. Although its shape has not been directly observed, calculations from its light curve are consistent with it being a Jacobi ellipsoid (the shape it would be if it were a dwarf planet), with its major axis twice as long as its minor. In October 2017, astronomers announced the discovery of a ring system around Haumea, representing the first ring system discovered for a trans-Neptunian object. Haumea's gravity was until recently thought to be sufficient for it to have relaxed into hydrostatic equilibrium, though that is now unclear. Haumea's elongated shape together with its rapid rotation, rings, and high albedo (from a surface of crystalline water ice), are thought to be the consequences of a giant collision, which left Haumea the largest member of a collisional family that includes several large trans-Neptunian objects and Haumea's two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka.

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  • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    That's all early season one stuff. I can mark it if you feel it is big bad though

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They did just re-make it. We could have some new fans with crystal.

        Queer space monarchy vs Lesbian transdimental fascism.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          That's cool. I've never seen it aside from one bootleg VHS i found a few years ago at a thrift store. It was Japanese and clearly an early fan sub. My guess for the plot is sailor moon did something that pissed off the local bdsm community and they are sending their strongest warriors one at a time in hopes of revenge.

              • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                It is more melodrama than zany for thr most part. Depends on the version you saw though. Alot of the old dubs replace all the queer themes with incest themes. Which is a hell of a choice on the part of American media companies. Despite that it is still a core part of the late gen X and early millennial queer consciousness. Also the old weebs but that is less cenferal there.

                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  What I saw was for sure one that added swearing for no reason and stuff and it's kinda now the only way I wanna experience it

                  • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    That sounds way better tbh. Although. I would have to check that might just be how they wrote cool teens to be back in the 90s. That could be accurate as the way japan handled content in children's media was wildly different than our system especially then.