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Haumea is a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt, the region beyond Neptune in the Solar System. Discovered on 7 March 2003, this celestial body was initially designated “2003 EL61” and was named Haumea in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union.It is named after Haumea, the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth; its two known moons, Hi’iaka and Namaka, bear the names of Haumea’s mythological daughters. Haumea is known as one of the fastest rotating large bodies in the Solar Syste

Eris is one of the largest known dwarf planets in the Solar System. It was discovered on 5 January 2005 by Mike Brown from the California Institute of Technology, Chad Trujillo from the Gemini Observatory, and David Rabinowitz from Yale University during observations of the outer Solar System at the Palomar Observatory. The data used for its discovery were obtained from observations dated 21 October 2003. Initially named 2003 UB313, this celestial body was popularly referred to by the name of th

The Kuiper Belt is a flat ring of icy bodies orbiting beyond the orbit of Neptune around Sun. It is named after Dutch-American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper and consists of hundreds of millions of objects whose orbits lie close to the plane of the solar system and are thought to be remnants from the formation of the outer planets. The Kuiper Belt is believed to be the source of most observed short-period comets, particularly those with orbital periods shorter than 20 years around the Sun and those

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, a young American astronomer working in Arizona. The search for Pluto, began much earlier, in the early 20th century, due to observations of small irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. These anomalies suggested the presence of a "Planet X," a large, unseen planet exerting a gravitational influence.Percival Lowell, an influential American astronomer, initiated the search for this mysterious planet. He dedicated years of effort to the pr

The Kuiper Belt is a flat ring of icy small bodies orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. Named after the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper, this belt consists of hundreds of millions of objects whose orbits are close to the plane of the solar system. These objects are thought to be remnants from the formation of the outer planets.The Kuiper Belt is believed to be the source of most observed short-period comets, especially those that orbit the Sun in less than 20 years, as well a