List of Venus-crossing minor planets

A Venus-crosser is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Venus. There are 2,809^[1] Venus-crosser and 98 outer-grazers known.^[2] Mercury-crossers or grazers are marked ‡.

Outer-grazer: *middle column, bottom*;
Crosser: *right column, bottom*

Venus also has a quasi-satellite, 524522 Zoozve. This asteroid is also a Mercury- and Earth-crosser; it seems to have been a "companion" to Venus for the last 7,000 years or so only, and is destined to be ejected from this orbital arrangement about 500 years from now.^[3]

Crossers

Grazers

References

^ List of asteroids with q<0.718440 AU and Q>0.728213 Retrieved 2015-01-05
^ List of asteroids with 0.718440 AU<q<0.728213 Retrieved 2016-05-03
^ Asteroid 2002 VE68, a quasi-satellite of Venus

External links

[jplcrosser-1] List of asteroids with q<0.718440 AU and Q>0.728213 Retrieved 2015-01-05

[jplgrazer-2] List of asteroids with 0.718440 AU<q<0.728213 Retrieved 2016-05-03

[3] Asteroid 2002 VE68, a quasi-satellite of Venus

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List of Venus-crossing minor planets

Contents

Crossers

Grazers

See also

References

External links