Image: Wikimedia Commons

136472 Makemake

Dwarf planet in the Solar System

Also known as Makemake (dwarf planet) · 2005 FY9 · Make-Make · (136472) Makemake · Maha-Maha

Mass: 3.1 yottagram
1
Sources
1.Stated in The Mass, Density, and Figure of the Kuiper Belt Dwarf Planet Makemake
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Diameter: 1,478 km
Orbital period: 307.54 years
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Semi-major axis: 45.56 AU
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Eccentricity: 0.158
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Discovered by: Michael E. Brown
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
, Chadwick Trujillo
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
, David L. Rabinowitz
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Discovered: March 31, 2005
2
Sources
1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Database
2.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Minor planet group: trans-Neptunian object
, cubewano

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Makemake is a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper belt, a disc of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the fourth largest dwarf planet and trans-Neptunian object in the Solar System, having a diameter 60% that of Pluto. It was discovered on March 31, 2005, by American astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz at Palomar Observatory. As one of the largest outer Solar System objects found by this team, the discovery of Makemake contributed to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006.

Overview

All data

72 statements · 36% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Named after: Makemake
Followed by: 136473 Bakosgáspár
1
Sources
1.Stated in Minor Planet Center database
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Site of astronomical discovery: Palomar Observatory
2
Sources
1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Database
2.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Provisional designation: 2005 FY9
Follows: (136471) 2005 FJ7
Inclination: 28.98 degree
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Child astronomical body: S/2015 (136472) 1
Orbits: Sun
Radius: 717 km
1
Sources
1.Stated in On the size, shape, and density of dwarf planet Makemake
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Albedo: 0.77 criterion used: geometric albedo
0.74 criterion used: Bond albedo
1
Sources
1.Stated in The Diverse Shapes of Dwarf Planet and Large KBO Phase Curves Observed from New Horizons
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Absolute magnitude: -0.2
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
0.049
1
Sources
1.Stated in Long-term photometric monitoring of the dwarf planet (136472) Makemake
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Mean anomaly: 163.94 degree
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Argument of periapsis: 295.09 degree
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Longitude of ascending node: 79.64 degree
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Location: Solar System
Periapsis: 38.36 AU
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Apoapsis: 52.76 AU
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Periapsis date (DEPRECATED): April 7, 1879
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Rotation period: 22.48 h
1
Sources
1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=136472
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Significant event: naming
Flattening: 0.05
Apparent magnitude: 17.05
Unicode character: 🝼
IPA transcription: ˈmakeˈmake language: German
Color index: 0.83 astronomical filter: B-V colour
Epoch: May 31, 2020
Surface gravity: 0.57 metre per square second sourcing circumstances: less than

On other databases

25 identifiers linking 136472 Makemake across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

36%

externally sourced

Source last edited August 30, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q604

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). 136472 Makemake (Q604). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/136472-makemake-Q604