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Bookmark or Share- Makemake Facts: Facts about Dwarf Planet MakemakeIt is named for Makemake, the creator of humanity, god of fertility and chief god in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island. Besides Pluto, Makemake was the only dwarf planet bright enough to have possibly been detected by astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.
- Makemake - WikipediaMakemake [e] (minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and the largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt objects, [b] with a diameter approximately that of Saturn's moon Iapetus, or 60% that of Pluto.
- Makemake | Facts, Atmosphere, Information, History & DefinitionMakemake is about a fifth as bright as Pluto. It is dimmer than Pluto yet brighter than Eris. Makemake has a radius of about 444 miles or 715 kilometers, it’s 1/9 the radius of Earth. Like other dwarf planets, it travels through the Kuiper Belt. A day on Makemake lasts about 22.5 hours.
- Makemake - NASA ScienceDwarf planet Makemake is a member of a group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. This distant realm is populated with thousands of miniature icy worlds, which formed early in the history of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.
- 10 Facts About the Dwarf Planet Makemake - Mental FlossFrom a distance of 4.26 billion miles, much about Makemake remains a mystery, though scientists are chipping away at the unknowns. Here are a few things they know—but you might not—about...
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