Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on May 4, 2005, from observations taken between December 12, 2004, and March 9, 2005.
V začetku leta 1935 so podjetja Krupp, MAN, Henschel und Sohn in Daimler-Benz dostavila prvi prototip tanka.