#quasisatellite — Public Fediverse posts
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What is Venus' quasi-moon Zoozve?
Venus and Mercury are the only planets in the Solar System without moons, but that’s not the whole story.
✍️ by Kate Howells for The Planetary Society
https://www.planetary.org/articles/venus-quasi-moon-zoozve#zoozve #moon #quasimoon #satellite #quasisatellite #venus #solarsystem #planet #planets #orbit #orbits #planetary #science #planetaryscience #astronomy #astrodon #reseacr #STEM #KateHowells #publiceducation #planetary #society #PlanetarySociety
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Asteroid (469219) Kamo`oalewa, an Earth's quasi-satellite, may have originated as a lunar fragment from a meteoroid impact on the Moon
✍️ by Jose Daniel Castro-Cisneros, writing in the Nature Astronomy Community blog "Behind the Paper"
https://astronomycommunity.nature.com/posts/kamo-oalewa-could-be-an-ejected-fragment-of-the-moon#asteroid #kamooalewa #moon #earth #quasisatellite #meteroid #impact #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research
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2023 FW13 (a=1.00 au) seems to be a #QuasiSatellite of the Earth. A preliminary simulation with Tony Dunn's orbit simulator shows it in this configuration for several centuries at least: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K23/K23G10.html -> https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/38580