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English: Dwarf planet Haumea and its satellites, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope's WFC2 camera from 12 May 2008 and 19 May 2008. The brighter dot orbiting Haumea is the larger outer moon Hi'iaka while the fainter dot is the smaller inner moon Namaka. This animation of the moons' orbits spans 7 days and the orbital plane of Namaka is oriented vertically.
Images have been in public domain since 2008-05-19. Proposal ID 11518 (Michael E. Brown).
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Author Hubble Space Telescope/Michael E. Brown (processing by Nrco0e at English Wikipedia )

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