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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]
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 ...
Peru Township was organized in 1817. [4] The township was named after Peru, New York, the native home of a share of the early settlers. [5] Originally part of neighboring Delaware County, Peru Township became part of Morrow County in 1848. [6] Statewide, the only other Peru Township is located in Huron County.
Planned city construction – ancient cities in Mexico–such as Teotihuacan and the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan–incorporated planned city design, including streets laid out in a grid pattern. Plumbing – the Maya have been found to be the earliest inventors of plumbing in Mesoamerica, with the earliest example of a pressurized water ...
Peru is a city in, and the county seat of, Miami County, Indiana, United States. [2] It is 73 miles (117 km) north of Indianapolis . The population was 11,073 at the 2020 census, [ 3 ] making it the most populous community in Miami County. [ 5 ]
The trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Makemake is so named because both the planet and the island are connected to Easter; the planet was discovered shortly after Easter 2005, and the first European contact with Easter Island was on Easter Sunday 1722. [10] [11] The dwarf planet's code name was "Easterbunny". Petroglyphs on rocks at Orongo.
There are several towns and cities named Boston in the US, but this is the only one named after the one in England. All the others were named after this city or a person named Boston. [10] Bowdon, Greater Manchester (historically in Cheshire) Bowdon, North Dakota [22] Boxford, Suffolk: Boxford, Massachusetts [10] Bradford, West Yorkshire