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Makemake
Dwarf planet · Dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt
About Makemake
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Makemake was 52.7 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 7.31 hours to reach it.
It goes round the Sun once every 307.2 years, at an average distance of 45.523 AU.
It is about 1,430 km across.
The map lists it as a dwarf planet and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Semi-major axis | 45.523 AU |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 307.2 years |
| Eccentricity | 0.1601 |
| Inclination | 29.03° |
| Radius | 715.0 km |
| Distance from the Sun | 52.7 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.
From Wikipedia
Makemake is a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper belt, a disc of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the fourth largest dwarf planet and trans-Neptunian object in the Solar System, having a diameter 60% that of Pluto. It was discovered on March 31, 2005, by American astronomers Michael E.
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