A Venus-crosser is an
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...
whose
orbit
In celestial mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as ...
crosses that of
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin" planet as it is almost as large and has a similar composition. As an interior planet to Earth, Venus (like Mercury) appears in Earth's sky never f ...
. There are 2,809
[List of asteroids with q<0.718440 AU and Q>0.728213](_blank)
Retrieved 2015-01-05 Venus-crosser and 98 outer-grazers known.
[List of asteroids with 0.718440 AU](_blank)
Retrieved 2016-05-03 Mercury-crossers or grazers are marked ‡.
Venus also has a
quasi-satellite,
(524522) 2002 VE68. 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.
Asteroid 2002 VE68, a quasi-satellite of Venus
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Crossers
Grazers
See also
*List of Mercury-crossing minor planets
A Mercury crosser is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mercury. The Mercury crossers proper have aphelia outside Mercury's (0.4667 AU) and perihelia inside Mercury's (0.3075 AU), whereas those listed here as outer grazers have perihelia wit ...
*List of Earth-crossing minor planets
An 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 Ea ...
*List of Mars-crossing minor planets
A Mars-crossing asteroid (MCA, also Mars-crosser, MC) is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars. Some Mars-crossers numbered below 100000 are listed here. They include the two numbered Mars trojans 5261 Eureka and .
Many databases, for i ...
*List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets
A Jupiter-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Jupiter. Jupiter trojans can be inner grazers (105), outer grazers (52), co-orbitals (183), and crossers (537). Discounting them, there is one numbered, 7 non-numbered, and 19 cometary ...
*List of Saturn-crossing minor planets
A Saturn-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Saturn. The known numbered Saturn-crossers (as of 2005) are listed below. There is only one inner-grazer ( 944 Hidalgo) and no outer-grazers or co-orbitals known; most if not all of the ...
*List of Uranus-crossing minor planets
A Uranus-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Uranus. The numbered Uranus-crossers (as of 2005) are listed below. Most, if not all, are centaurs.
Notes: † inner-grazer; ‡ outer-grazer
* 2060 Chiron †
* 5145 Pholus
* 533 ...
*List of Neptune-crossing minor planets
A Neptune-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Neptune. The dwarf planet Pluto is the most massive example of this class of object. The known numbered Neptune-crossers (as of 2005) are:
''Notes'': ‡ outer-grazer
† 134340 Pl ...
References
External links
Very Close Approaches (< 0.01 AU) of PHAs to Venus 1900–2200
Upcoming Close Approaches (< 0.10 AU) of Near-Earth Objects to Venus
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Minor planet groups and families
Lists of minor planets
Minor planets
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''mino ...