Question

Why might the plutoid haumea have been named after the mother goddess of Hawaii​

Answer 1

Haumea is named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth. It is the  goddess of fertility and childbirth in Hawaiian mythology.

Explanation:

• Haumea is the Hawaiian goddess of creation, which is also a dwarf planet in our solar system.
• By rebirths means Haumea changes herself from age to youth and returns to marry her children and grandchildren.
• The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced the name of a new dwarf planet to join the existing four in the solar system.
• Haumea is recently recorded as about 50 times as far from the sun as Earth is, but its orbit can revolve it in as close as 35 times the distance from earth and sun.
• It is part of the trans-Neptunian class of cold and rocky objects in the outer part of the solar system.
• The children of Haumea were created from the parts of her own body, just like how the dwarf planet's two moons were born out of itself.