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A Venus-crosser is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Venus. There are 2,809<ref name="jplcrosser">List of asteroids with q<0.718440 AU and Q>0.728213 Retrieved 2015-01-05</ref> Venus-crosser and 98 outer-grazers known.<ref name="jplgrazer">List of asteroids with 0.718440 AU<q<0.728213 Retrieved 2016-05-03</ref> Mercury-crossers or grazers are marked ‡.
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.<ref>Asteroid 2002 VE68, a quasi-satellite of Venus</ref>
CrossersEdit
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GrazersEdit
See alsoEdit
- List of Mercury-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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External linksEdit
- 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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