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The fringes of light around Venus are produced by optical effects. Neith is a hypothetical natural satellite of Venus reportedly sighted by Giovanni Cassini in 1672 and by several other astronomers in following years. It was 'observed' up to 30 times by astronomers until 1770, when there were no new sightings and it was not found during the ...
524522 Zoozve (provisional designation 2002 VE68) is a sub-kilometer sized asteroid and temporary quasi-satellite of Venus. [5] Discovered in 2002, it was the first such object to be discovered around a major planet in the Solar System. It has nearly the same orbital period around the Sun that Venus does. In a frame of reference rotating with ...
Neith (hypothetical moon) of Venus; People named after Neith: Neithhotep, wife of the first king of a unified Ancient Egypt, Narmer or of Hor-Aha, the mother of and co-ruler with Djer, and who may have ruled in her own right during the first dynasty
Theia (/ ˈθiːə /) is a hypothesized ancient planet in the early Solar System which, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago, with some of the resulting ejected debris coalescing to form the Moon. [1][2] Collision simulations support the idea that the large low-shear-velocity ...
C. Chiron (hypothetical moon) Chrysalis (hypothetical moon) Claimed moons of Earth.
Fort Venus located on the north coast of Tahiti. On 3 June 1769, navigator Captain James Cook, naturalist Joseph Banks, astronomer Charles Green and naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. [1] During a transit, Venus appears as a small black disc travelling ...
WikiProject Astronomical objects. From the article: "In 1761, Lagrange announced that Neith's orbital plane was perpendicular to the ecliptic, and in 1777, he estimated its orbital period as eleven days and three hours. He hoped that the moon would be seen during the transit of Venus across the Sun which was to occur on June 1, 1777."
List of Venus-crossing minor planets. A Venus-crosser is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Venus. There are 2,809 [1] Venus-crosser and 98 outer-grazers known. [2] 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 ...