He and other astronomers consider it to be the first in an entirely new population, sometimes termed "distant detached objects" (DDOs), which also may include the object , which has a perihelion of 45 AU, an aphelion of 415 AU, and an orbital period of 3,420 years.
Mike Brown, ki je leta 2003 to telo odkril, je komentiral, da ne more biti del razpršenega diska ali Kuiperjevega pasu, ker je v periheliju preveč oddaljen, da bi nanj lahko vplival Neptun.