Makemake
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Makemake was first observed in March 2005 by M.E. Brown, C.A. Trujillo, and D.L. Rabinowitz at the Palomar Observatory. Its unofficial codename was Easterbunny. It was officially recognized as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union in 2008. Makemake is located in the Kuiper Belt, a region outside the orbit of Neptune. Astronomers believe it is slightly smaller than Pluto. It takes 310 Earth years for this dwarf planet to make one orbit around our Sun. -[NASA]
Changing Data
- Rises:
- Sets:
- Apparent Magnitude:
- Illumination:
- %
- Size (")
- Distance in light minutes:
- Distance in miles:
- 0
- Distance in AU:
Orbital Data
- Rotational Period:
- 0.937
- Orbital Period:
- 305.34
- Perihelion:
- 5.672 * 109 km
- Aphelion:
- 7.895 * 109 km
- Epoch:
- 2011.08.27
- Inclination:
- 29.00°
- Semi-Major Axis:
- 6.783 * 109 km
- Orbit Circumference:
- 4.233 * 1010 km
- Eccentricity:
- 0.163844964
- Ascending Node:
- 79.33955°
- Axial Tilt:
- °
- Albedo:
- Color BV:
- Color UV:
- Equatorial Diameter:
- 4.000 * 103 km
- Equatorial Circumference:
- 0.000 * 100 km
- Surface Area:
- 0.000 * 100 km2
- Surface Gravity:
- m/s2
- Surface Temperature:
- Mass:
- 4.000 * 1022 kg
- Volume:
- 0.00000 * 100 km3
- Density:
- 2 g/cm3
- Absolute Magnitude:
- -0.4