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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Oof being out here in la is affecting the fuck out of my mood. Just surrounded on all sides by people so fucking lit about nfts while they look at art about how the planet is dying and not a see a shred of contradiction. These people are fucking clowns.
It's always rich when chuds call California, COMMIEFORNIA, because they love to mistake turbo liberalism for leftism.
Everything out here is performative and then they just do or buy some alternative thing that’s just as bad, or has all the same modes of production as “the bad thing” they just put healthy Whole Foods vibes on it and that makes it ok I guess? Idk it sucks out here and everything is literally twice the price it should be
It's what zero theory or materialist analysis does to a mofo, they think they can ethically consume their way out of capitalism's problems.
Just roll down past alvarado and get you some fresh papusas off thr street. It will make you feel better. The lack of proper food safety makes them taste better.
That sounds dank. I wish I could go somewhere cool and eat, we’re doing a bunch of lunch meetings with industry people at various froufrou places in Malibu lol
Oh word, you are in that cursed part of town. Get that bag but couldn't be me.
I feel that, It’s barely me. It is extremely draining, I hate ever second of it. Luckily my bandmate is slightly more normie and pretty outgoing so I lean on them a lot haha