Makemake timeline
Date: 4.5 billion years ago Activity: Makemake formed alongside other icy worlds in the Kuiper Belt early in the history of our Solar System.
Date: March 2005
Activity: Makemake is observed for the first time by scientists Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz at the Palomar Observatory in California.
Date: 19 July 2008
Activity: Makemake is officially named by the International Astronomical Association.
Date: April 2011
Activity: Astronomers determined Makemake had no atmosphere after observing its occultation of a faint star.
Date: April 2016
Activity: NASA announces the discovery of Makemake’s moon MK 2.
“Like all the known dwarf planets but Ceres, Makemake travels through the Kuiper Belt”