New name for (136472) 2005 FY9: Makemake, the creator of humanity on Easter Island / Dios creador de la mitología pascuense.

Artist's conception of Makemake, by A. Feild (Space Telescope Science Institute)

I wrote about the possibility of a planet almost the size of Earth in the Kuiper belt almost a month ago, and also had some information about the various dwarf planet-sized bodies there that we've discovered. Many of them are quite large but still don't have a name. One of them was known until yesterday as 2005 FY9, but now has the name Makemake, and is officially a dwarf planet. Here's its Wikipedia page.

So what kind of place is Makemake? I'll just copy and paste the template from Wikipedia because that's the easiest way, then put in a few notes (and remove the silly number in Fahrenheit) to compare it to Pluto. Here it is:

Orbital characteristics
Epoch January 28, 1955 (JD 2435135.5)
Aphelion	7,939.7 Gm (53.074 AU) <- Pluto 49
Perihelion	5,760.8 Gm (38.509 AU) <- Pluto 29
Semi-major axis	6,850.3 Gm (45.791 AU) <-- Pluto 39
Eccentricity	0.159 <-- Pluto 0.24
Orbital period	113,183 d (309.88 a) <-- Pluto 248 years
Average orbital speed	4.419 km/s <-- Pluto 4.666 km/s
Mean anomaly	85.13°
Inclination	28.96 °
Longitude of ascending node	79.382°
Argument of perihelion	298.41°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	1,300–1,900 km
Mean radius	750+200−100 km <-- Pluto 1,195 km
Surface area	~7,000,000 km²
Volume	~1.8 × 109 km³
Mass	~4 × 1021 km <-- Pluto (1.305 ± 0.007)×1022
Mean density	~2 g/cm³
Equatorial surface gravity	~0.5 m/s² <-- Pluto 0.58
Escape velocity	~0.8 km/s <-- Pluto 1.2 km/s
Albedo	0.8 ± 0.2
Temperature	~30 K (−243 °C)
Apparent magnitude	16.7 (opposition)
Absolute magnitude	−0.48