![]() Animation of Zoozve's orbit from 1600 to 2500 - relative to Sun and Venus
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Discovery[1] | |
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Discovered by | LONEOS |
Discovery site | Anderson Mesa Stn. |
Discovery date | 11 November 2002 |
Designations | |
(524522) Zoozve | |
2002 VE68 | |
Orbital characteristics[2] | |
Epoch 5 September 2014 (JD 2456905.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 16.06 yr (5,866 d) |
Aphelion | 1.0206 AU |
Perihelion | 0.4268 AU |
0.7237 AU | |
Eccentricity | 0.4103 |
225 days | |
251.64° | |
1° 36m 3.6s / day | |
Inclination | 9.0060° |
231.58° | |
355.45° | |
Earth MOID | 0.027 AU (10.44 LD) |
Physical characteristics | |
236 m (calculated)[3] | |
13.50±0.01 h[3][4] | |
0.20 (assumed)[3] | |
524522 Zoozve (provisional designation 2002 VE68) is a sub-kilometer sized asteroid and temporary quasi-moon of Venus.[5] Discovered in 2002, it was the first such object to be discovered around a major planet in the Solar System. It has nearly the same orbital period around the Sun that Venus does. In a frame of reference rotating with Venus, it appears to travel around it during one Venerean year, but it orbits the Sun, not Venus.[6]
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