Reddish-brown icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt.
No small telescope will show you this one; it is here to be understood, not spotted.
Makemake is roughly one ninth as wide as Earth.
Makemake orbits on average about 46 times as far from the Sun as Earth does.
Makemake takes about 308 Earth years to go once round the Sun.
Makemake turns round once in about 23 hours; Earth takes about 24 hours.
Makemake has roughly 1/707 the volume of Earth.
On Makemake you would weigh roughly 1/28 of what you weigh on Earth.
| Across | 1,430 km |
|---|---|
| Distance from the Sun, on average | 45.57 AU · 6.817 billion km · sunlight takes 6 hours 19 minutes |
| Once round its orbit | 307.6 Earth years |
| Sunrise to sunrise | 22.83 hours |
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