No high-resolution images of Makemake's surface exist because it has not been visited up close by a space probe. Makemake is so far from Earth that it appears as a star-like point of light even when …

Apr 24, 2025 · Dwarf 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 …

Makemake, dwarf planet orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Pluto. Originally called 2005 FY9, Makemake is named after the creator god of the Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island; the name …

Makemake, formally designated (136472) Makemake, is the third-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and one of the two largest Kuiper belt objects (KBO) in the classical KBO population.

Makemake is a dwarf planet and the largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt objects, with a diameter approximately that of Saturn's m...

Makemake is the largest of the Kuiper belt objects (KBO) and the only one without any satellites (moons). The extremely low temperature of the dwarf planet, about 30 K or −243.2 °C, means that …

Discovered in March 2005, Makemake is the second furthest dwarf planet to the Sun. It is also the 3rd largest dwarf planet, just slightly smaller and dimmer than Pluto.

After Eris and Pluto, Makemake is the third largest known dwarf planet. Along with fellow dwarf planets Pluto and Haumea, Makemake is located in the Kuiper Belt, a region outside the orbit of Neptune.

Makemake is the second brightest object in the Kuiper Belt capable of being seen through a high-end amateur telescope from Earth at an average albedo (light reflection) of 0.81.

Makemake is a Trans-Neptunian object, because it orbits the Sun further out than Neptune. Because the diameter, Makemake is the fourth largest known dwarf planet and Trans-Neptunian object in the …