Makemake

This 'Makemake' puts me in mind of a radio being tuned from one end of the band to the other: incoherent bits of dialogue that has no relation one to the other.

My Inner Frenchman: He Reaped What They Sowed 2009

The few largest ones, including Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris have one crucial feature that distinguishes them from the other objects in the Kuiper Belt.

SAVE PLUTO!: SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES » Sociological Images 2009

There are several other spherical Kuiper Belt Objects that should also be considered planets–Haumea, Makemake, and Eris–as well as Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Readings, signings, and other events vaguely literary for Monday, February 23, 2009 | Seattle Metblogs 2009

Pluto is 7375AU (that is 7,375 time the distance of Earth to Sun), Makemake is 7939AU.

The Impact of the Hubble Space Telescope Julianne 2008

Early European explorers received the impression that the Easter Island statues were idols, but no moai is known to have borne the name of a divine personality, such as the creator god Makemake.

The Eight Wonder of the World – Easter Island | Impact Lab 2007

Either the god Makemake, or priests or chiefs commanded them to walk or to float through the air, and according to one legend, use was made of a finely crafted stone sphere, 75 cm (2.5 ft) in diameter, called te pito kura (‘the golden navel’ or ‘the navel of light’), to focus the mana.

The Eight Wonder of the World – Easter Island | Impact Lab 2007

Makemake au i ke kalukalu o Kewá, [303] 15 E he'e ana i ka nalu o Maka-iwa.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

Ka huli a ka makani Wai-a-ma'o, [294] 20 Makemake e iki ia ka Hala-mapu-ana,

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

New Horizons is in fact on its way to a dwarf planet, as Pluto is not sufficiently larger than its Kuiper Belt neighbors, namely the objects Haumea and Makemake, to meet the definition of a true planet.

Wired Top Stories Matt Simon 2012

Those new rules cast Pluto out, and put it in a new, and very exclusive, club of just five confirmed dwarfs in the solar system: Pluto, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.

Wired Top Stories Wired UK 2011