Newest Dwarf Planet: Makemake

[2552]

http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/07/14/0147250.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makemake_(dwarf_planet)

This used to be 2005 FY9. I wonder when we'll see this in Orbiter. I couldn't find an addon of it; I don't know how to make textures, but I made this config file for it if anyone wants to use it.

; === Configuration file for Makemake (2005 FY9) ===
Name = Makemake
EllipticOrbit = TRUE
HasElements = TRUE

; === Planetary Mean Orbits ===
Epoch = 2008
SemiMajorAxis = 6810290575150.88
Eccentricity = .158731405508969
Inclination = .506108127912632
LongAscNode = 1.38934901589219
LongPerihelion = 6.54470677006258
MeanLongitude = 9.16824058375914


; === Physical Parameters ===
Mass = 4e21 ; kg
Size = 750e3 ; km (+200/-100)
AlbedoRGB = 0.8 0.8 0.8 ; wild guess

; === Rotation Elements ===
SidRotPeriod = 43200 ; sec
SidRotOffset = 0 ; unknown
Obliquity = 0.535467015 ; rad
LAN = 0 ; unknown

; === Visualisation Parameters ===
MaxPatchResolution = 6

 

[Kyle]

Geez! A New Dwarf Planet.

 

[Bullethead]

This used to be 2005 FY9. I wonder when we'll see this in Orbiter. I couldn't find an addon of it; I don't know how to make textures, but I made this config file for it if anyone wants to use it.

Cool! I like it when things get names instead of numbers.

I hope somebody takes your config file and runs with it. We can never have too many KBOs in Orbiter .

 

[TSPenguin]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080716.html

Makemake of the Outer Solar System
Credit: R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASA

Explanation: Recently discovered Makemake is one of the largest objects known in the outer Solar System. Pronounced MAH-kay MAH-kay, this Kuiper belt object is only slightly smaller than Pluto, orbits the Sun only slightly further out than Pluto, and appears only slightly dimmer than Pluto. Makemake, however, has an orbit much more tilted to the ecliptic plane of the planets than Pluto. Designated 2005 FY9 soon after its discovery by a team led by Mike Brown (Caltech) in 2005, the outer Solar System orb was recently renamed Makemake for the creator of humanity in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island. Additionally, Makemake has been recently classified as a dwarf planet under the new subcategory plutoid, making Makemake the third cataloged plutoid after Pluto and Eris. Makemake is known to be a world somewhat red in appearance, with spectra indicating it is likely covered with frozen methane. Since no images of Makemake's surface yet exist, an artist's illustration originally meant to depict Sedna has been boldly co-opted above to now illustrate Makemake. A hypothetical moon is visualized above nearly in the direction of our distant Sun.

 

[jedidia]

where did that name come from? among all them poetic ones in the rest of the solar system this one will get an inferiority complex... :blink:

Not as bad as easterbunny though... :rofl:

 

[TSPenguin]

Designated 2005 FY9 soon after its discovery by a team led by Mike Brown (Caltech) in 2005, the outer Solar System orb was recently renamed Makemake for the creator of humanity in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island.

The one who posses the ability to read has a clear advantage here...

 

[jedidia]

I'm here to lead, not to read!

anyways, so the name is poetic after all. Easterbunny's still having all the shame alone...