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Ephemeris
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2011 02 27    12 39 53.1 +27 51 37  51.3837 52.2024   145.5     0.6    16.9
2011 02 28    12 39 49.6 +27 52 13  51.3788 52.2025   146.0     0.6    16.9
2011 03 01    12 39 46.1 +27 52 48  51.3742 52.2027   146.4     0.6    16.9
2011 03 02    12 39 42.6 +27 53 22  51.3698 52.2028   146.9     0.6    16.9
2011 03 03    12 39 38.9 +27 53 56  51.3657 52.2029   147.3     0.6    16.9
2011 03 04    12 39 35.3 +27 54 30  51.3618 52.2031   147.8     0.6    16.9
2011 03 05    12 39 31.6 +27 55 04  51.3582 52.2032   148.2     0.6    16.9
2011 03 06    12 39 27.9 +27 55 37  51.3549 52.2034   148.5     0.6    16.8
2011 03 07    12 39 24.1 +27 56 09  51.3518 52.2035   148.9     0.6    16.8
2011 03 08    12 39 20.3 +27 56 42  51.3490 52.2037   149.2     0.6    16.8
2011 03 09    12 39 16.5 +27 57 13  51.3465 52.2038   149.5     0.6    16.8
2011 03 10    12 39 12.6 +27 57 45  51.3442 52.2039   149.7     0.5    16.8
2011 03 11    12 39 08.7 +27 58 16  51.3422 52.2041   149.9     0.5    16.8
2011 03 12    12 39 04.7 +27 58 46  51.3404 52.2042   150.1     0.5    16.8
2011 03 13    12 39 00.8 +27 59 16  51.3389 52.2044   150.3     0.5    16.8
2011 03 14    12 38 56.8 +27 59 45  51.3377 52.2045   150.4     0.5    16.8
2011 03 15    12 38 52.8 +28 00 14  51.3367 52.2046   150.5     0.5    16.8
2011 03 16    12 38 48.7 +28 00 43  51.3360 52.2048   150.6     0.5    16.8
2011 03 17    12 38 44.7 +28 01 11  51.3356 52.2049   150.6     0.5    16.8
2011 03 18    12 38 40.6 +28 01 38  51.3354 52.2051   150.7     0.5    16.8
2011 03 19    12 38 36.5 +28 02 05  51.3355 52.2052   150.6     0.5    16.8
2011 03 20    12 38 32.4 +28 02 31  51.3359 52.2054   150.6     0.5    16.8
2011 03 21    12 38 28.2 +28 02 57  51.3365 52.2055   150.5     0.5    16.8
2011 03 22    12 38 24.1 +28 03 22  51.3374 52.2056   150.4     0.5    16.8
2011 03 23    12 38 19.9 +28 03 47  51.3385 52.2058   150.2     0.5    16.8
2011 03 24    12 38 15.7 +28 04 11  51.3399 52.2059   150.0     0.5    16.8
2011 03 25    12 38 11.5 +28 04 35  51.3416 52.2061   149.8     0.5    16.8
2011 03 26    12 38 07.3 +28 04 58  51.3435 52.2062   149.6     0.6    16.8
2011 03 27    12 38 03.1 +28 05 20  51.3457 52.2063   149.3     0.6    16.8
2011 03 28    12 37 58.9 +28 05 42  51.3482 52.2065   149.0     0.6    16.8
2011 03 29    12 37 54.6 +28 06 03  51.3509 52.2066   148.7     0.6    16.8
2011 03 30    12 37 50.4 +28 06 23  51.3539 52.2068   148.4     0.6    16.9
2011 03 31    12 37 46.2 +28 06 43  51.3571 52.2069   148.0     0.6    16.9


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Dwarf Planet (136472) Make-make makes its closest approach to the Earth (51.283 AU) on the 16th March, 2010.

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"Far beyond the moon and stars,  Twenty light-years south of Mars,  Spins the gentle Bunny Planet,  And the Bunny Queen is Janet"  - Voyage to the Bunny Planet  by Rosemary Wells.

A few years ago, astronomer Mike Brown of Caltech discovered a small planet. It was farther away from Earth than Mars is, farther away than Jupiter, farther even than Pluto. He found it a few days after Easter, so he decided to call it Easterbunny. The solar system finally had a bunny planet!

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Several readers pointed out that the correct Polynesian pronunciation of Make-make is not Maki-maki, as I suggested, but rather MAH-kay MAH-kay (where the capitals show accent).
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Members of the International Astronomical Union's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN) and the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) have decided to name the newest member of the plutoid family Makemake, and have classified it as the fourth dwarf planet in our Solar System and the third plutoid.

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A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on Saturday.
The red methane-covered dwarf planet formerly known as 2005 FY9 or "Easterbunny" is named after a Polynesian creator of humanity and god of fertility.

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One of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, has finally gotten a name: Makemake, after a god in the culture of Easter Island.

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Makemake is the creator of humanity and the god of fertility in the mythology of the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui. He was the chief god of the Tangata manu bird-man cult and was worshipped in the form of sea birds, which were his incarnation. His material symbol, a man with a bird's head, can be found carved in petroglyphs on the island.

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(136472) Makemake (formerly (136472) 2005 FY9) is a very large Kuiper belt object, and one of the two largest among the population in the classical KBO orbits. It was discovered on March 31, 2005 by the team led by Michael Brown. Makemake is now officially classified as a dwarf planet and plutoid.

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Dr. Michael Brown,
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associate professor of planetary astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, presented his discovery and major findings of the most distant object ever detected orbiting the Sun, at a press media teleconference held on the 29 th July, 2005.
He and his colleagues made the observations as part of a NASA-funded research project.
UPDATE: 10.09.05 The new Trans-Neptunian objects are being formally announced this week at a planetary conference in Cambridge, England.
Bearing the extremely temporary names 'Xena,'(2003 UB313)(now known as Eris), 'Santa,' (2003 EL61) ( and 'Easterbunny,'(2005 FY9) the conference in Cambridge represents the first formal, scientific disclosure of the objects.

"They're just weird, and it appears that they must have been thrown into their unusual positions by Neptune's gravity jolting them like a slingshot" - Michael E. Brown

The three astronomers are Michael E. Brown of the California Institute of Technology, Chadwick A. Trujillo of the University of Hawaii and David Rabinovitz of Yale University. Trujillo and Rabinovitz are discussing their finds at a planetary conference this week in Cambridge, England, but Brown stayed home because he promised his wife he'd help care for their new baby.
Informally, Brown's team named Xena after TV's Warrior Princess; Santa because it was discovered last Dec. 28, just after Christmas, and Easterbunny because it appeared just before Easter this year.
The light-hearted names are unlikely to be recognized officially
  Easterbunny


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