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Venus-crosser is an
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
whose
orbitIn physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body, for example the gravitational orbit of a planet around a star....
crosses that of
VenusVenus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6...
. The known numbered Venus-crossers and outer-grazers (marked †) are listed below (Mercury-crossers or grazers are marked ‡).
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Venus-crosser is an
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
whose
orbitIn physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body, for example the gravitational orbit of a planet around a star....
crosses that of
VenusVenus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6...
. The known numbered Venus-crossers and outer-grazers (marked †) are listed below (Mercury-crossers or grazers are marked ‡).
Venus also has a
quasi-satelliteA quasi-satellite is an object in a 1:1 orbital resonance with its planet that stays close to the planet over many orbital periods.A quasi-satellite's orbit around the Sun takes exactly the same time as the planet's, but has a different eccentricity , as shown in the diagram on the right...
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2002 VE682002 VE68 is an asteroid discovered on November 11 2002. It's best known as the quasi-satellite or "quasi-moon" of Venus....
. This asteroid is also a Mercury- and
Earth-crosserAn Earth-crosser is a Near-Earth asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth as observed from the ecliptic pole of Earth's orbit. The known numbered Earth-crossers are listed here. Those Earth-crossers whose semi-major axes are smaller than Earth's are Aten asteroids; the remaining ones are Apollo...
; it seems to have been a "companion" to Venus for the last 7000 years or so only, and is destined to be ejected from this orbital arrangement about 500 years from now.
Note: All of these are also
Earth-crossers or grazersAn Earth-crosser is a Near-Earth asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth as observed from the ecliptic pole of Earth's orbit. The known numbered Earth-crossers are listed here. Those Earth-crossers whose semi-major axes are smaller than Earth's are Aten asteroids; the remaining ones are Apollo...
.
- 1566 Icarus
1566 Icarus is an Apollo asteroid whose unusual characteristic is that at perihelion it is closer to the Sun than Mercury; it is said to be a Mercury-crosser asteroid. It is also a Venus and Mars-crosser. It is named after Icarus of Greek mythology, who flew too close to the Sun...
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- 1862 Apollo
1862 Apollo is a Q-type asteroid, discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1932, but lost and not recovered until 1973. It is named after the Greek god Apollo....
- 1864 Daedalus
1864 Daedalus is a Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on March 24, 1971 by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
- 1865 Cerberus
1865 Cerberus is an Apollo and a Mars crosser asteroid, discovered in 1971 by L. Kohoutek.Cerberus passes within 30 Gm of the Earth 7 times from the year 1900 to the year 2100, each time at a distance of 24.4 Gm to 25.7 Gm.- References :...
- 1981 Midas
The asteroid 1981 Midas was discovered on March 6, 1973 by Charles T. Kowal at Palomar Observatory. It is named after Midas, the king of Phrygia in Greek mythology who turned objects to gold when he touched them...
- 2063 Bacchus
The Apollo, Venus- and Mars-crosser asteroid 2063 Bacchus was discovered on April 24, 1977 by Charles T. Kowal at the Palomar Observatory. In March 1996 radar observations of the asteroid were conducted at the Goldstone Observatory under the direction of JPL scientists Steven Ostro and Lance...
- 2100 Ra-Shalom
The asteroid 2100 Ra-Shalom was discovered in 1978 by Eleanor F. Helin. It was the second asteroid in the Aten class, after the discovery of 2062 Aten in 1976, also by Helin. The Atens have a semi-major axis of less than 1 AU; of the Atens, Ra-Shalom is one of the asteroids with the smallest...
- 2101 Adonis
2101 Adonis was one of the first near-Earth asteroids to be discovered. It was discovered by Eugene Delporte in 1936 and named after Adonis, the beautiful youth with whom the goddess Venus fell in love...
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- 2201 Oljato
2201 Oljato is a Apollo asteroid discovered on December 12, 1947 by H. L. Giclas at Flagstaff .2201 was a target of Hubble search for transition comets .- External links :*...
- 2212 Hephaistos
2212 Hephaistos is a Apollo asteroid and a NEO discovered on September 27, 1978 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...
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- 2340 Hathor
2340 Hathor is an asteroid that was discovered on October 22, 1976 by Charles Kowal at Palomar. Like the other objects of Aten type, Hathor is named for an Egyptian deity. Known as a sky-goddess and the daughter of Ra, Hathor was also identified with Aphrodite. The name was proposed by E...
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- 3200 Phaethon
3200 Phaethon is an Apollo asteroid and an extinct comet.Simon F. Green and John K. Davies, while searching Infrared Astronomical Satellite data for moving objects, discovered 3200 Phaethon in images from October 11, 1983. It was announced on October 14 in IAUC 3878 along with optical...
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- 3360 Syrinx
- 3362 Khufu
3362 Khufu is a near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered by R. Scott Dunbar and Maria A. Barucci at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 30, 1984. Its provisional designation was 1984 QA. It is named after Khufu, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.Khufu crosses the orbits of...
- 3554 Amun
3554 Amun is an M-type Aten asteroid and a Venus-crosser. It was discovered on 4 March, 1986 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Mount Palomar Observatory. Its estimated diameter is 2.5 kilometers, making it one of the smallest known M-type asteroids.Amun was once considered metallic, based on its...
- 3753 Cruithne
3753 Cruithne is an asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with that of the Earth. It is a periodic inclusion planetoid orbiting the Sun in an apparent horseshoe orbit...
- 3838 Epona
3838 Epona is a Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on November 27, 1986 by Maury, A. at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
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- (4034) 1986 PA
1986 PA is an Apollo asteroid, 0.8 kilometers in diameter. It completes one revolution around the Sun almost once every year. It was disclovered by Eleanor F. Helin at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California on August 2, 1986...
- 4183 Cuno
4183 Cuno is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid. It was discovered in 1959 by Cuno Hoffmeister, from whom the asteroid takes its name....
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- (4197) 1982 TA
1982 TA was discovered on October 11, 1982 by Eleanor F. Helin and Eugene Shoemaker. It is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid, only 1.7 km in diameter....
- 4341 Poseidon
4341 Poseidon is a Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on May 29, 1987 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
- 4450 Pan
4450 Pan is an asteroid that was discovered on September 25, 1987 by Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker. It is a Venus, Mars, and Earth crosser. Pan approaches nearer than 10 Gm to those three planets, and within 20 Gm of Mercury....
- 4581 Asclepius
4581 Asclepius is a small asteroid of the Apollo group that can approach Earth’s orbit to within 600,000 km; it was discovered in 1989 by the American astronomers Henry E. Holt and Norman G. Thomas , and named after the Greek demigod of Medicine and Healing...
- 4769 Castalia
The asteroid 4769 Castalia was the first asteroid to be modeled by radar imaging. It is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid. It was discovered on August 9, 1989 by Eleanor F. Helin on photographic plates taken at Palomar Observatory...
- (4953) 1990 MU
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- (5131) 1990 BG
- 5143 Heracles
5143 Heracles is a Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on November 07, 1991 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
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- 5381 Sekhmet
5381 Sekhmet is an Aten asteroid whose orbit is sometimes closer to the Sun than the Earth's. It was discovered on 14 May, 1991 by Carolyn Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory...
- (5590) 1990 VA
- (5604) 1992 FE
- (5660) 1974 MA ‡
- (5693) 1993 EA
- 5786 Talos
5786 Talos is a Apollo [NEO] discovered on September 03, 1991 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring.- External links :*...
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- (5828) 1991 AM
- (6037) 1988 EG
- 6063 Jason
6063 Jason is an Apollo asteroid discovered on May 27, 1984 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar. Its highly eccentric orbit crosses the orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus. From 1800 to 2200 it approached a planet within 30 Gm 69 times: Mercury 11, Venus 27, Earth 18, and Mars 13...
- 6239 Minos
6239 Minos is a Apollo asteroid and classified as a PHA discovered on August 31, 1989 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...
- (8035) 1992 TB †
- (8176) 1991 WA
- (8507) 1991 CB1
- (9162) 1987 OA
- (9202) 1993 PB
- (10145) 1994 CK1
- (10165) 1995 BL2
- (11500) 1989 UR
- (16816) 1997 UF9
- (16960) 1998 QS52 ‡
- (17182) 1999 VU
- (22753) 1998 WT
- (24443) 2000 OG ‡
- (26379) 1999 HZ1
- (30997) 1995 UO5
- (31662) 1999 HP11 †
- (33342) 1998 WT24
' is an Aten asteroid located in Venus' zone of influence that has frequent close encounters with Mercury, Venus, and Earth...
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- (36284) 2000 DM8
- 37655 Illapa
37655 Illapa is an Apollo asteroid discovered on August 1, 1994 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...
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- (38086) 1999 JB
- (40267) 1999 GJ4 ‡
- (41429) 2000 GE2
- (52750) 1998 KK17
- (55532) 2001 WG2
- (65679) 1989 UQ
- (65733) 1993 PC
- (65909) 1998 FH12
- (66063) 1998 RO1 ‡
- (66146) 1998 TU3 ‡
- (66253) 1999 GT3 ‡
- (66391) 1999 KW4
' is an Aten and Mercury-crosser asteroid discovered by LINEAR in 1999. has a moon orbiting it. The moon, designated S/2001 1 or '1999 KW4 Beta' is ~360 m in diameter, and orbits 'Alpha' in 0.758 d at a distance of 2.6 km...
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- (66400) 1999 LT7 ‡
- (67381) 2000 OL8
- (68347) 2001 KB67
- (68348) 2001 LO7 ‡
- (68950) 2002 QF15
' is a near-Earth object that will come as near as 7.5 Gm to the Earth on May 18, 2044....
- 69230 Hermes
69230 Hermes is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid that passed Earth at about twice the distance of the Moon on October 30, 1937. It is named after the Greek god Hermes....
- (85182) 1991 AQ
- (85713) 1998 SS49
- (85770) 1998 UP1
' is a near Earth, Aten asteroid orbiting at nearly a 1:1 resonance with Earth.-Orbit:With an orbital period of 364.48 d, is in a near perfect 1:1 orbital Resonance with Earth. Although their periods are almost identical, their orbits are very different; has a highly eccentric orbit and moves...
- (85953) 1999 FK21 ‡
- (85989) 1999 JD6 ‡
- (85990) 1999 JV6
- (86450) 2000 CK33
- (86667) 2000 FO10 ‡
- (86829) 2000 GR146
- (86878) 2000 HD24
- (87025) 2000 JT66
- (87309) 2000 QP ‡
- (87684) 2000 SY2 ‡
- (88213) 2001 AF2 ‡
- (88254) 2001 FM129 ‡
- (89958) 2002 LY45 ‡
- (90367) 2003 LC5
See also
- List of Mercury-crossing minor planets
- List of Venus-crossing minor planets
- List of Earth-crossing minor planets
- List of Mars-crossing minor planets
- List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets
- List of Saturn-crossing minor planets
- List of Uranus-crossing minor planets
- List of Neptune-crossing minor planets
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