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Say that Makemake's day is known only to a factor of two, citing both readings

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f655a4c kept Makemake's SBDB period, 22.83 hours, saying "nothing later overturns it", a reading
its author had not checked. The SBDB flags that period as Eris's was ("may be wrong by 30 percent
or so"). Hromakina et al. 2019 give 22.8266 h as the double-peaked period a "possible lightcurve
asymmetry suggests", of a light curve that repeats every 11.4 h. Kiss et al. 2024 (arXiv:2410.22544),
with TESS and Gaia, find the 11.401 +/- 0.076 h single peak again, "cannot confirm that the
double-peaked 22.8 h is Makemake's true rotation period", and take 11.4 h as their default.

Nothing is changed in what is drawn: the literature does not settle which it is, and 22.83 stays as
the SBDB's. The Makemake spec now cites both papers and says the drawn day may be twice the real
one, and the renderer's comment no longer calls the three dwarf planets' periods known.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ const BODY_SPECS: BodySpec[] = [
// SBDB itself flags as "may be wrong by 30 percent or so": it turns once in 15.771 +/- 0.008 days
// (Bernstein et al. 2023, PSJ 4, 115), locked to Dysnomia's 15.786-day orbit (Szakáts et al.
// 2023, A&A 669, L3). On the SBDB's figure it turned 14.6 times too fast.
//
// Makemake's day, the SBDB's 22.83 hours, carries the same flag and is not settled either: it is
// the double-peaked reading Hromakina et al. 2019 (A&A 625, A46) give as "possible" of a light
// curve that repeats every 11.4 hours. Kiss et al. 2024 (ApJL, arXiv:2410.22544) find that 11.40
// +/- 0.08 hour single peak again with TESS and Gaia, cannot confirm the 22.8, and take 11.4 as
// their default. Neither overturns the other; the SBDB's 22.83 is kept, and may be twice the day.
{ id: 'eris', name: 'Eris', kind: 'dwarf', horizonsCommand: '136199;', center: '500@10', sbdb: 'Eris', radiusKm: 1163, rotationPeriodHours: 15.771 * 24 },
{ id: 'haumea', name: 'Haumea', kind: 'dwarf', horizonsCommand: '136108;', center: '500@10', sbdb: 'Haumea', radiusKm: 797.6 },
{ id: 'makemake', name: 'Makemake', kind: 'dwarf', horizonsCommand: '136472;', center: '500@10', sbdb: 'Makemake', radiusKm: 715 },