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Score breakdown
· 6 badges
83 pts · Anomaly
Anomaly120 pts → Mythic
Giant body (>500 km)+22
Makemake+20
Dwarf planet+16
Trans-Neptunian object+12
Has a proper name+8
Has moons+5
Total score83
37 more points to reach Mythic.
Badges
⚪Dwarf planet· +16
🏔️Giant body (>500 km)· +22
🏷️Has a proper name· +8
🌙Has moons· +5
🌨️Trans-Neptunian object· +12
🥥Makemake· +20
✨ Trivia
Hard to believe
🥇Round under its own weight. Big enough that its own gravity has pulled it into a sphere — most of its neighbours are potato-shaped rubble.
What it actually is
🛸Its orbit family. A trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper Belt, out where the Sun is little more than the brightest star in a very dark sky.
🔁One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 306 years.
🥏How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 38.21 and 52.65 AU from the Sun.
🌕One moon. It has exactly one natural satellite, which is unusual: most moons come in crowds.
Sense of scale
🧱Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is about 41% as wide as our Moon.
🚶Walk around it. Walking its equator at a steady pace, eight hours a day, would take about 3.7 months.
🌍Against Earth. It is only 11% of Earth's width — you could pack about 707 of it inside our planet.
Properties
aphelion au
52.6534
color
#caa37f
diameter km
1430
eccentricity
0.159
inclination
29
name
Makemake
named
yes
num moons
1
orbit class
TNO
orbital period days
111845
perihelion au
38.2066
radius km
715
semi major au
45.43
About Makemake
Makemake is an anomaly dwarf planet. It completes an orbit every 111,845 days and swings within 38.207 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
A trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper Belt, out where the Sun is little more than the brightest star in a very dark sky.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Makemake is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Makemake is an anomaly dwarf planet
Makemake scores 83 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 37 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Dwarf planet, Giant body (>500 km), Has a proper name, Has moons, Trans-Neptunian object and Makemake — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.
📷 Real photo