Dwarf-system satellite
MK2
A faint companion revealing that Makemake is not alone.
MK2 is a small, dark satellite detected close to bright Makemake. Its discovery opened a way to constrain the dwarf planet’s mass once the orbit is sufficiently measured.
- Orbit representation
- Representative mean elements
- Surface
- procedural reconstruction
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 87.5 km
- Mean orbital distance
- 21,000 km
- Orbital period
- 12.4 days
- Eccentricity
- Unresolved
- Inclination
- UnresolvedRepresentative parent-equatorial visual plane; source-backed pole unresolved
- Orbit plane
- Representative
System portrait
A discovery defined by contrast
The body remains poorly resolved. The page therefore emphasizes the measured system context and labels the visual surface as a restrained reconstruction.
System geometry
MK2 around Makemake
MK2 orbits at a mean distance of 21,000 km with a period of 12.4 days. Its eccentricity remains unresolved, and the orbital inclination is not asserted relative to Representative parent-equatorial visual plane; source-backed pole unresolved. Missing angular orientation stays explicitly representative.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
Only a restrained representative separation/period context is rendered. No surface map or precise angular orbit is claimed.
Reference-guided visual reconstruction based on cited mission records; no source raster is reproduced.
Provenance