Why Is This Dwarf Planet Shaped Like an Egg? | NOVA | PBS

Most objects with a radius over 200 miles are spherical, but Haumea is an exception.

Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is only about 4 Earth hours long.

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