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Dwarf planets, Makemake and Orcus, sky-watcher (johny)
Dwarf planets, Makemake and Orcus, sky-watcher (johny)

Dwarf planets, Makemake and Orcus

Dwarf planets, Makemake and Orcus, sky-watcher (johny)
Dwarf planets, Makemake and Orcus, sky-watcher (johny)

Dwarf planets, Makemake and Orcus

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136472 Makemake is a dwarf planet and the second-largest Kuiper belt object in the classical population,(A classical Kuiper belt object, also called a cubewano ( "QB1-o")) with a diameter approximately two-thirds that of Pluto.It has one known satellite. It was named after Makemake, a creator god in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island. The rotation period of Makemake is estimated at 22.83 hours.
Makemake has a single discovered moon. It was seen 21,000 km (13,000 mi) from the dwarf planet, and its diameter is estimated at 175 km (110 mi).
Makemake has an orbital period of 306 years.


90482 Orcus, is a trans-Neptunian dwarf planet with a large moon, Vanth. It has a diameter of 910 km (570 mi). 
Orcus is a plutino, a trans-Neptunian object that is locked in a 2:3 resonance with the ice giant Neptune, making two revolutions around the Sun to every three of Neptune's.
A spatially resolved submillimeter imaging of Orcus–Vanth system in 2016 showed that Vanth has a relatively large size of 475 km (295 mi)
Orcus has an orbital period of 245 years.

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