# Makemake

*In the Solar System*

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 | 7,888,775,410 km (+7,639 km/d) |
| From the Earth | 8,006,923,206 km (+1,038,547 km/d) |
| A signal takes | 7 h 25 m |

Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of 2026-09-05, changing at the rate given beside each. The interpolation itself is good to a few kilometres; what ages these figures is the date, not the arithmetic.

## Elsewhere

- On the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?world=solar-system&focus=makemake
- This object as a page: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/makemake/
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt