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V774104 is the internal designation for the trans-Neptunian object designated , but in November 2015 press releases confused it with 541132 Leleākūhonua, which was provisionally designated and internally designated V302126. Both objects were mentioned at the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Various news articles speculated that V774104 was currently from the Sun, but its observation arc was too short to know whether its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) was even outside Neptune's influence.

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Sun
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site of astronomical discovery
Subaru Telescope
time of discovery or invention
2015-10-13
discoverer or inventor
Scott S. Sheppard
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V774104 is the internal designation for the trans-Neptunian object designated , but in November 2015 press releases confused it with 541132 Leleākūhonua, which was provisionally designated and internally designated V302126. Both objects were mentioned at the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Various news articles speculated that V774104 was currently from the Sun, but its observation arc was too short to know whether its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) was even outside Neptune's influence.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 0.9em;" |+Perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) ! Object ! Perihelion(AU) ! Heliocentricdistance (AU) ! Classification |-bgcolor=#c2c2c2 |Neptune(for comparison) || 30 || 30 || Planet |- |541132 Leleākūhonua () || 65 || 79 || Sednoid |- | || 29 ± 6 || 89 || Scattered disc |}

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