Huya is probably a spherical planetoid much like Saturn's moon Mimas, above (NASA)
New planetoid named after rain god
A new 'planetoid' orbiting between Neptune and Pluto has been named 'Huya' after the mythical rain god of the Wayuu people of Venezuela, astronomers announced.
The minor planet was found in March 2000 by Venezuelan and U.S. astronomers using a powerful telescope located at the Centre for Astronomical Studies observatory in Merida, Venezuela.
The team was led by Professor Ignacio Ferrin, an astrophysicist at the University of the Andes in Colombia, and was provisionally dubbed 2000 EB173 when it was first discovered.
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