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Makemake
A dwarf planet about two-thirds the width of Pluto, bright with methane ice, and one of the objects whose discovery in 2005 forced the argument that ended with Pluto reclassified. It has one small dark moon, found in 2016. Nothing has been near it and nothing is going, so almost everything known about it comes from how its light changes and from the moments it passes in front of a star.
- Radius
- 715 km
- Around the equator
- 4,492 km
- Mass
- 3.1 x 10^21 kg
- Compared with the Earth
- 0.001 ×
- From the Sun
- 7,889,059,693 km (+7,535 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 8,020,993,952 km (-354,545 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 7 h 26 m
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.