V774104 is the internal designation for the trans-Neptunian object designated , but in November 2015 press releases confused it with

541132 Leleākūhonua 541132 Leleākūhonua (), provisionally designated , is an extreme trans-Neptunian object and sednoid in the outermost part of the Solar System. It was first observed on 13 October 2015, by astronomers at the Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii. B ...

, which was provisionally designated and internally designated V302126. as both objects were mentioned at the

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’s Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Various news articles speculated that V774104 was currently from the Sun, but its

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was too short to know whether its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) was even outside Neptune's influence.

References

{{2015 in space Scattered disc and detached objects Astronomical objects discovered in 2015 Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard Discoveries by Chad Trujillo Discoveries by David J. Tholen