dwarf planet
Makemake
A bright methane-rich Kuiper belt world.
Makemake is one of the largest known objects in the classical Kuiper belt.
- Orbit representation
- verified fallback
- Surface
- procedural reconstruction
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 715 km
- Semi-major axis
- 45.43 AU
- Orbital period
- 306.206 Earth yearsKeplerian estimate from the catalogued semi-major axis.
- Eccentricity
- 0.159
- Inclination
- 28.98°
- Visual geometry
- sphere
Orbital character
An orbit lifted well beyond the planetary plane
Makemake follows a catalogued path with a 45.43 AU semi-major axis, eccentricity 0.159, and 28.98° inclination. The resulting two-body period estimate is 306.206 Earth years; the representation notes below state the source epoch and precision boundary used by Explore.
Catalogue context
Makemake among its nearest Helios peers
Makemake is linked with Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Quaoar, Gonggong, Sedna, Orcus inside the Helios outer-system selection. The grouping keeps adjacent reading coherent; it does not imply that these bodies share the same composition, origin, or present physical state.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
A bundled frozen six-element preview preserves the documented body scope. It was not freshly re-fetched from SBDB in this build environment and must not be presented as an accurate or current ephemeris.
Reference-guided visual reconstruction based on cited mission records; no source raster is reproduced.
Provenance