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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 ...
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.
Named by the IAU dwarf-planet naming committee on September 17, 2008. Two known moons and one known ring. Makemake (2005 FY 9) – discovered March 31, 2005, and announced July 29. Named by the IAU dwarf-planet naming committee on July 11, 2008. One known moon.
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]
Eris is named after the Greek goddess Eris (Greek Ἔρις), a personification of strife and discord. [34] The name was proposed by the Caltech team on September 6, 2006, and it was assigned on September 13, 2006, [ 35 ] following an unusually long period in which the object was known by the provisional designation 2003 UB 313 , which was ...
136472 Makemake: March 31, 2005: list (175113) 2004 PF 115: August 7, 2004: list ... Brown was named one of Time 's 100 most influential people of 2006. [13]
The name was inspired by the renaissance Englishman, John Evelyn, who lived in the 17th century. Evelyn is most famous for 'Sylva,' the first important work on conservation.
There are a large number of resonant subgroups, the largest being the twotinos (1:2 resonance) and the plutinos (2:3 resonance), named after their most prominent member, Pluto. Members of the classical Edgeworth–Kuiper belt include 15760 Albion, Quaoar and Makemake. Another subclass of Kuiper belt objects is the so-called scattering objects (SO).