{"id":12652,"date":"2017-01-12T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=12652"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:32:33","slug":"022417hastings_jewitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=12652","title":{"rendered":"February 24 2017: The Rotation Period of Hi&#8217;iaka, Haumea&#8217;s Largest Satellite &#038; Rotationally Disrupting Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Hastings (UCLA): Using relative photometry from the <i>Hubble Space Telescope<\/i> and Magellan, we have found that Hi\u2019iaka, the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Haumea, has a rotation period of ~9.8 hours.\u00a0 This surprisingly short period, ~120 times faster than its orbital period, creates new questions about the formation of the Haumea system and possible tidal evolution.<\/p>\n<p>David Jewitt (UCLA): I will present observations suggesting the role of rotational disruption in the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Hastings (UCLA): Using relative photometry from the Hubble Space Telescope and Magellan, we have found that Hi\u2019iaka, the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Haumea, has a rotation period of ~9.8 hours.\u00a0 This surprisingly short period, ~120 times faster than its orbital period, creates new questions about the formation of the Haumea system and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=12652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February 24 2017: The Rotation Period of Hi&#8217;iaka, Haumea&#8217;s Largest Satellite &#038; Rotationally Disrupting Bodies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12662,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions\/12662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}