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MAKEMAKE (DWARF PLANET)

Makemake is likely to be so cold that its surface is probably covered with methane, ethane and nitrogen ice.

Makemake as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.


Image credit: Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/NASA.

Makemake Facts


Diameter: about 1,500 x 1,430 kilometres, or 930 x 890 miles

Surface temperature: about -230 degrees Celsius, or -380 degrees Fahrenheit

Distance from the Sun: 6,838,860,000 kilometres (6 billion, 838 million, 860 thousand kilometres), or 4,249,470,000 miles (4 billion, 249 million, 470 thousand miles)

Rotation period (day): 7.7 Earth hours

Orbital period (year): 309.09 Earth years or 112,897 Earth days

Moons: S/2015 (136472) 1

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