Distant Minor Planets brighter than Magnitude 18 for December 2009

2009 WP104             RA 02 45 05.6 DEC +18 40 53 Mag 17.6 V
(136472) Makemake RA 12 37 06.8 DEC +27 31 12 Mag 17.0 V
(136108) Haumea     RA 13 44 56.1 DEC +18 12 55 Mag 17.4 V

From Twitter: @plutokiller: Looks like 2010 will be the year of Makemake



Photograph of Makemake taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on November 20, 2006.

From Twitter: @kpheider: Imaged Makemake on Thanksgiving November 26 2009 at 11:45 UT



Image of Dwarf planet Makemake by Kevin Heider taken at 2009-11-26 11:45 UT.
10 minute exposure of using 24" telescope LB-001 at LightBuckets in Rodeo, NM. Makemake is about apparent magnitude 16.9 in this image. Glaxy IC 3587 is visible above Makemake.

References:

Mike Brown on Twitter: http://twitter.com/plutokiller

Kevin Heider on Twitter: http://twitter.com/kpheider

Minor Planet and Comet Ephemeris Service: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html

MPEC 2009-X06 : DISTANT MINOR PLANETS (2009 DEC. 15.0 TT): http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09X06.html

File:Makemake hubble.png
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Wikimedia Commons File:Makemake-LB1-2009Nov26-11UT.jpg: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Makemake-LB1-2009Nov26-11UT.jpg