# 🌊 Namaka

**Namaka** is the smaller, outer moon of the dwarf planet Haumea in the Kuiper Belt🪐.

### Key facts

* **Discovered:** 2005
* **Parent body:** Haumea
* **Region:** Kuiper Belt (beyond Neptune)
* **Relative size:** Smaller than Haumea’s other moon, Hiʻiaka
* **Orbit:** Irregular and dynamically complex due to interactions with Hiʻiaka

### Name origin

Namaka is named after a **Hawaiian sea goddess**, associated with water and the ocean. Haumea itself is named after a Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth, and its moons follow Hawaiian mythology.
