Haumea Family
The Haumea or Haumean family is the only identified trans-Neptunian collisional family; that is, the only group of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with similar orbital parameters and spectra (nearly pure water-ice) that suggest they originated in the disruptive impact of a progenitor body. Calculations indicate that it is probably the only trans-Neptunian collisional family.
| Object | (H) | Diameter albedo=0.7 |
V–R |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haumea | 0.03 | 1,460 km | 0.33 |
| 2002 TX300 | 3.2 | 364 km | 0.36 |
| 2005 RR43 | 4.0 | 252 km | 0.41 |
| 2003 OP32 | 4.0 | 230 km | 0.39 |
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