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| Orbit Diagram
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This applet is provided as a 3D orbit visualization tool.
The applet was implemented using 2-body methods,
and hence should not be used for determining accurate long-term trajectories
(over several years or decades) or planetary encounter circumstances.
For accurate long-term ephemerides, please instead use our Horizons system. |
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Additional Notes: the orbits shown in the applet are color coded. The planets are white lines, and the asteroid/comet is a blue line. The bright white line indicates the portion of the orbit that is above the ecliptic plane, and the darker portion is below the ecliptic plane. Likewise for the asteroid/comet orbit, the light blue indicates the portion above the ecliptic plane, and the dark blue the portion below the ecliptic plane.
Orbit Viewer applet originally written and kindly provided by
Osamu Ajiki (AstroArts),
and further modified by
Ron Baalke (JPL).
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 53 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
| Element | Value | Uncertainty (1-sigma) | Units |
| e | .1599407694202124 | 2.1041e-05 | |
| a | 45.55562792809212 | 0.001613 | AU |
| q | 38.26942574585215 | 0.0023019 | AU |
| i | 29.01300543713787 | 1.1501e-05 | deg |
| node | 79.28708117449064 | 0.00033241 | deg |
| peri | 297.0787488235422 | 0.0076449 | deg |
| M | 154.5559050022712 | 0.0093238 | deg |
| tp | 2408184.121863102664
(1881-Apr-13.62186310) | 0.80891 | JED |
| period | 112308.2041351184
307.48 | 5.9648
0.01633 | d
yr |
| n | .003205464843573517 | 1.7024e-07 | deg/d |
| Q | 52.84183011033209 | 0.001871 | AU |
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Additional Information
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Physical Parameter Table
| Parameter |
Symbol |
Value |
Units |
Sigma |
Reference |
Notes |
| absolute magnitude |
H |
-.4273 |
mag |
.42053 |
53 |
autocmod 2.5c |
| rotation period |
rot_per |
22.48 |
h |
n/a |
Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2013-May-01) |
[Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so.] |
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| 136472 Makemake | Discovered 2005 Mar. 31 by M. E. Brown, C. A. Trujillo and D. L. Rabinowitz at Palomar. |
| Makemake is the creator of humanity and the god of fertility in the mythology of the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. He was the chief god of the Tangata manu bird-man cult and was worshiped in the form of sea birds, which were his incarnation. His material symbol was a man with a bird's head. |
| NOTE: some special characters may not display properly (any characters within {} are an attempt to place the proper accent above a character) |
| Reference: 20080718/MPCPages.arc | Last Updated: 2008-07-18 |
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