Makemake is a Kuiper Belt dwarf planet slightly smaller than Pluto and the second-brightest object in the Kuiper Belt as seen from Earth, taking about 305 Earth years to complete one orbit of the Sun.
Facts
Diameter (km) Orbital Distance45.8 AU, about 6.85 billion km, from the Sun 1 Discovery Year Connections
Orbits
Source NASA Solar System Exploration
Sources
1. NASA Solar System Exploration
National Aeronautics and Space Administrationscience.nasa.gov, Dwarf Planets: Makemake
It takes about 305 Earth years for this dwarf planet to make one trip around the Sun.
Entity description, makemake catalogue classification
Makemake is a Kuiper Belt dwarf planet slightly smaller than Pluto and the second-brightest object in the Kuiper Belt as seen from Earth, taking about 305 Earth years to complete one orbit of the Sun.
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In Group: Trans-Neptunian Dwarf Planets, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Trans-Neptunian Dwarf Planets, Lead sentence
Makemake (minor-planet number 136472) is a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper belt, a disc of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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