The Kuiper Belt is an area beyond Neptune that hosts a number of dwarf planets (a status poor Pluto was reduced to back in 2006). In 2005, a small one of these dwarf planets was discovered and named Makemake after the Easter Island god of fertility. Now, astronomers have discovered, with the help of the Hubble telescope, that Makemake has a small moon which they have named MK2. It is hard to believe that the first Kuiper Belt object (excluding Pluto) was only discovered back in 1992 and now up to 1,000 more objects have been found in that region.
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