136472 Makemake
A bright methane-frosted Kuiper belt world with one strikingly dark moon.
Where it is right now
136472 Makemake is in Coma Berenices, 53.2 AU away, magnitude 17.1.
Computed for 2 August 2026, 17:00 UTC, and recomputed at least hourly. This page is cached, so treat the line above as accurate to the hour rather than to the second. The map shows the live position.
Position from a Kepler propagation of the published elements below, accurate to about an arcminute.
Facts
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- Diameter
- 1,430 kmSource: Published occultation and Herschel/Spitzer radiometry results
- Orbital period
- 307.6 yearsSource: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database
- Distance from the Sun
- 45.571 AU on averageSource: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database
- Orbit shape
- eccentricity 0.159, inclined 29.0 degrees to the eclipticSource: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database
- Class
- Trans-neptunian objectSource: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database
- Discovered
- 2005-Mar-31 by Brown, M. E., Trujillo, C. A., Rabinowitz, D.Source: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database
Physical size
- Mean radius
- 715 km
- Diameter
- 1,430 km across
- Absolute magnitude H
- -0.25
Orbit
Elements are heliocentric, referred to the J2000.0 ecliptic.
- Average distance from the Sun
- 45.571 AU (6,817.3 million km)
- Closest and furthest
- 38.330 AU (5,734.1 million km) to 52.812 AU (7,900.5 million km)
- Eccentricity
- 0.1589, noticeably elliptical
- Inclination to the ecliptic
- 29.03 degrees
- Orbital period
- 308 years
- Longitude of ascending node
- 79.29 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 297.09 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 139.00 degrees
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