O equipo de [[Michael E. Brown|Mike Brown]]'sdiscoveryalcumou teama haseste nicknamedobxecto thecoma object "Snow White"''Brancaneves'', as it would have to be very large or very bright to bedebido detectedó byseu theirgran surveybrillo.<ref name="Brownblog">{{citeCita webWeb
|accessdatedataacceso=201017-02-172010|archiveurlurlarquivo=http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1242528075930065|archivedatedataarquivo=200917-05-17|deadurl=no2009}}</ref> ItTamén isalcumado alsopolo theequipo "seventhde dwarf"Brown discoveredcoma byo Brown's'sétimo teamanano'', afterdespois dos descubrimentos Quaoar inno 2002, Sedna inno 2003, Haumea ande Orcus inno 2004, ande Makemake ande Eris inno 2005. En palabras de Brown, "realmente aínda no propuxemos ningún nome para él, por que non demso cun nome con suficiente ''significado''.<ref name="Brownblog"/> Actualmente é o obxecto máis grande do [[Sistema Solar]] sen nome propio.
According to Brown, "We have not yet proposed a real name for it, as we don't know enough to have a name with meaning."<ref name="Brownblog"/>
It is currently the largest known object in the Solar System without an official name.
