SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Originally designated 2003 EL61 (and nicknamed Santa by one discovery team), Haumea is located in the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pluto is a dwarf planet that lies in the Kuiper Belt, an area full of icy bodies and other dwarf planets out past Neptune.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Kuiper Belt is one of the largest structures in our solar system-others being the Oort Cloud, the heliosphere and the magnetosphere of Jupiter. Its overall shape is like a puffed-up disk, or donut. Its inner edge begins at the orbit of Neptune, at about 30 AU from the Sun.

Detailed explanation-4: -The largest two Kuiper Belt objects are Pluto and Eris, with Pluto being slightly larger at a diameter of 2, 377 kilometers (1, 477 miles). There are between three and seven other known KBOs with diameters that are approximately 950-1, 500 kilometers (600-900 miles), including Pluto’s largest moon, Charon.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Kuiper belt is also home to three other recognized dwarf planets, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris, and potentially hundreds of others that have not yet been discovered. There is one known dwarf planet that is not a KBO: the dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.