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Makemake was discovered on March 31, 2005, by a team at the Palomar Observatory, led by Michael E. Brown, [8] and was announced to the public on July 29, 2005. The team had planned to delay announcing their discoveries of the bright objects Makemake and Eris until further observations and calculations were complete, but announced them both on July 29 when the discovery of another large object ...
S/2015 (136472) 1, unofficially nicknamed MK2 by the discovery team, [2] is the only known moon of the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Makemake. [1] [4] It is estimated to be 175 km (110 mi) in diameter and has a semi-major axis of at least 21,000 km (13,000 mi) from Makemake. [1]
136472 Makemake: March 31, 2005: list (175113) 2004 PF 115: August 7, 2004: list ... Asteroid 11714 Mikebrown, discovered on April 28, 1998, was named in his honor. [14]
"Its discovery was announced on July 29, 2005, which was the same day as Eris and two days after 2003 EL61." I tripped over this sentence a little, possibly because it seems incomplete. Perhaps something like this would work: "A team led by Michael Brown discovered Makemake on March 31, 2005, and it was announced to the public on July 29, 2005.
Makemake (deity) H. Haua; S. S/2015 (136472) 1 This page was last edited on 4 November 2023, at 00:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The catalog's first object is 1 Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801, while its best-known entry is Pluto, listed as 134340 Pluto. The vast majority (97.3%) of minor planets are asteroids from the asteroid belt (the catalog uses a color code to indicate a body's dynamical classification).
The number of dwarf planets in the Solar System is unknown. Estimates have run as high as 200 in the Kuiper belt [1] and over 10,000 in the region beyond. [2] However, consideration of the surprisingly low densities of many large trans-Neptunian objects, as well as spectroscopic analysis of their surfaces, suggests that the number of dwarf planets may be much lower, perhaps only nine among ...
(It was the first of 23 comets discovered by Levy, who is famous as the 1993 co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, the first comet ever observed crashing into a planet, Jupiter.) [120] 1985: The use of elliptic curves in cryptography ( elliptic curve cryptography ) was suggested independently by Neal Koblitz and Victor S. Miller in 1985.