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Showing posts with label The dwarf planet Makemake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The dwarf planet Makemake. Show all posts

Thursday, May 19, 2016

The dwarf planet Makemake has a moon

A team of astronomers has discovered a faint moon orbiting the dwarf planet Makemake; one of the five dwarf planets in the Solar System. The object, which takes its name from the Rapanui god of creation, Make-Make, it was discovered in 2005 and is a frozen 1,400 kilometers in diameter that orbits the Sun at a distance greater than Pluto's body.