// Dwarf planet

Makemake

Distance from Earth right now

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calculated live from orbital data (NASA/JPL)

Distance from Sun

45.8 AU (≈ 6.9 billion km)

Orbital period

≈ 305 years

Diameter

≈ 1,430 km

Moons

1

Makemake is named after the creator deity of the Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and is one of the largest known Kuiper Belt objects after Pluto. Its very bright, reddish surface is likely made of frozen methane and ethane, similar to Pluto. Its only known moon, informally nicknamed 'MK 2', wasn't discovered until 2016 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Orbital data: NASA/JPL Horizons. Photos: Wikimedia Commons.