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Is there a planet named make a make?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

There isn't a planet called 'make a make', but there is a 'dwarf planet' called Makemake. This was discovered relatively recently in 2005 in the distant outer solar system, further away from the Sun than any of the true planets - in the region called the 'Kuiper belt'.

It is just a bit smaller than Pluto (having about 3/4 the diameter), and is a categorised as a dwarf planet for the same reason that Pluto was 'demoted' from being called a planet in 2006. This is because although it is massive enough with sufficiently strong gravity to form a spherical shape, it has not cleared its neighbouring region of small bodies (called planetesimals).

Other 'dwarf planets' of roughly similar size that have been discovered so far are Haumea (also in the Kuiper belt), Ceres (the biggest chunk of rock in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter) and Eris, which lies in the 'scattered disc' - even more distant than the Kuiper belt, about 70 times further away from the Sun than the Earth!

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15y ago

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