|
Makemake
|
|
|
Number
|
136472
|
|
Provisional name
|
2005 FY9
|
|
Class
|
Dwarf Planet
Plutoid Cubewano |
|
Discovery date
|
31.03.2005
|
|
Discovery chart
|
|
Discovery position
|
20° Virgo 16' Rx
|
|
Time of announcement
|
29.07.2005 - 19:50 UT
|
|
Naming
|
July 2008
Mike Brown's Planets |
|
Orbital period
|
309 years
|
|
Orbit
|
|
|
Aphelion
|
52.775 AU
|
|
Perihelion
|
37.918 AU
|
|
Semimajor axis
|
45.346 AU
|
|
Magnitude
|
-0.3
|
|
Diameter
|
1300 - 1900 km |
 Photo: Copyright © Susanna Kauppinen. |
|
|
Mythology
|
Makemake is the creator of humanity and the god of fertility in the mythology of the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). He was the chief god of the Tangata manu bird-man cult and was worshipped in the form of sea birds, which were his incarnation. His material symbol, a man with a bird's head, can be found carved in petroglyphs on the island.
|
|
Astrology
|
Summer Solstice -- 20.06.2008, 23:59 UT (Uranus opposite Makemake)
Full Moon in Capricorn -- 18.07.2008, 07:59 UT (The Moon trine Makemake) Full Moon in Aries -- 14.10.2008, 20:02 UT (Venus sextile Makemake) Full Moon in Libra -- 30.03.2010, 02:25 UT (Uranus opposite Makemake) |