Venus trojan


A Venus trojan is an asteroid that orbits the Sun in the vicinity of Venus. Trojans travel in Venus-Sun Lagrangian points, leading 60°, or, trailing 60°. is the only known trojan of Venus, and is located near Venus's Lagrangian point. While 524522 Zoozve is currently a quasi-satellite of Venus, it is expected to be ejected from that configuration and become a Venus trojan orbiting at Venus' point in about 500 years.
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L41.200.720.392.6518.3

Exploration

The only known temporary trojan of Venus is. It orbits Venus in a tadpole orbit around Venus's Lagrangian point. The asteroid was discovered in July 2013 by N. Primak, A. Schultz, T. Goggia and K. Chambers, observing for the Pan-STARRS project.
As of September 2014, the asteroid had been observed 21 times over a data-arc span of 26 days. It is classified as an Aten asteroid, and its semi-major axis is 0.7235 astronomical units closely matches that of Venus. However, it has a high eccentricity of 0.6115 and a low orbital inclination of 4.794°. With an absolute magnitude of 24.1, its estimated diameter ranges between 40 and 100 meters, based on an assumed albedo range of 0.04 to 0.20.
In addition to being a Venus co-orbital, the asteroid is also a Mercury-crosser and Earth-crosser. shows resonant or near-resonant orbital behavior with Mercury, Venus, and Earth. Its short-term orbital behavior differs from the other three known Venus co-orbitals:, 524522 Zoozve, and.
According to a Minor Planet Center list, it does not list as a potentially hazardous asteroid, as it has only passed 0.077 AU from Earth on 21 June 2016.