frame|right|Outer-grazer: middle column, bottom;<br>Crosser: right column, bottom

A Venus-crosser is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Venus. There are 2,809 Venus-crosser and 98 outer-grazers known. 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.

Crossers

Grazers

See also

  • 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

References

  • Very Close Approaches (< 0.01 AU) of PHAs to Venus 1900–2200
  • Upcoming Close Approaches (< 0.10 AU) of Near-Earth Objects to Venus