Dwarf planet
Makemake
Makemake is a dwarf planet beyond Neptune.
Covered in frozen methane stained reddish-brown. Found in 2005, it is one of the discoveries that made Pluto a dwarf planet in 2006.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Catalogue
- 136472 Makemake
- Diameter
- 1 430 km
- One lap of the Sun
- 308 years
- Closest to the Sun
- 38.33 au
- Farthest from the Sun
- 52.8 au
- Moons
- S/2015 (136472) 1
How the map draws it
Drawn as a plain round body of its measured size — the kind of thing, not this exact one.