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A Venus-crosser is an asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

whose orbit

Orbit

In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, for example the orbit of a planet around the center of a star system, such as the Solar System...

crosses that of Venus

Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...

. The known numbered Venus-crossers and outer-grazers (marked †) are listed below (Mercury-crossers or grazers are marked ‡).

Venus also has a quasi-satellite

Quasi-satellite

A quasi-satellite is an object in a 1:1 orbital resonance with its planet that stays close to the planet over many orbital periods.A quasi-satellite's orbit around the Sun takes exactly the same time as the planet's, but has a different eccentricity , as shown in the diagram on the right...

, 2002 VE₆₈

2002 VE68

' is a quasi-satellite of Venus. It was discovered on November 11, 2002.This asteroid is also a Mercury grazer and an Earth crosser; it seems to have been co-orbital with Venus for only the last 7000 years, and is destined to be ejected from this orbital arrangement about 500 years from now...

. This asteroid is also a Mercury- and Earth-crosser; it seems to have been a "companion" to Venus for the last 7000 years or so only, and is destined to be ejected from this orbital arrangement about 500 years from now.

Note: All of these are also Earth-crossers or grazers.

1566 Icarus
1566 Icarus
1566 Icarus is an Apollo asteroid that at perihelion comes closer to the Sun than Mercury, i.e. it is a Mercury-crossing asteroid. It is also a Venus and Mars-crosser. It is named after Icarus of Greek mythology, who flew too close to the Sun...

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1862 Apollo
1862 Apollo
1862 Apollo is a Q-type asteroid, discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1932, but lost and not recovered until 1973. It is named after the Greek god Apollo....
1864 Daedalus
1864 Daedalus
1864 Daedalus is a Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on March 24, 1971 by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
1865 Cerberus
1865 Cerberus
1865 Cerberus is an Apollo and a Mars crosser asteroid, discovered in 1971 by L. Kohoutek.Cerberus passes within 30 Gm of the Earth 7 times from the year 1900 to the year 2100, each time at a distance of 24.4 Gm to 25.7 Gm.- References :...
1981 Midas
1981 Midas
The asteroid 1981 Midas was discovered on March 6, 1973 by Charles T. Kowal at Palomar Observatory. It is named after Midas, the king of Phrygia in Greek mythology who turned objects to gold when he touched them...
2063 Bacchus
2063 Bacchus
The Apollo, Venus- and Mars-crosser asteroid 2063 Bacchus was discovered on April 24, 1977, by Charles T. Kowal at the Palomar Observatory. In March 1996 radar observations of the asteroid were conducted at the Goldstone Observatory under the direction of JPL scientists Steven Ostro and Lance...
2100 Ra-Shalom
2100 Ra-Shalom
The asteroid 2100 Ra-Shalom was discovered in 1978 by Eleanor F. Helin. It was the second asteroid in the Aten class, after the discovery of 2062 Aten in 1976, also by Helin. The Atens have a semi-major axis of less than 1 AU; of the Atens, Ra-Shalom is one of the asteroids with the smallest...
2101 Adonis
2101 Adonis
2101 Adonis was one of the first near-Earth asteroids to be discovered. It was discovered by Eugene Delporte in 1936 and named after Adonis, the beautiful youth with whom the goddess Venus fell in love...

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2201 Oljato
2201 Oljato
2201 Oljato is a Apollo asteroid discovered on December 12, 1947 by H. L. Giclas at Flagstaff .2201 was a target of Hubble search for transition comets .- External links :*...
2212 Hephaistos
2212 Hephaistos
2212 Hephaistos is an Apollo asteroid and a NEO discovered on September 27, 1978 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named for the Greek god Hephaestus.-References:...

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2340 Hathor
2340 Hathor
2340 Hathor is an asteroid that was discovered on October 22, 1976 by C.T. Kowal at Palomar. Like the other objects of Aten type, Hathor is named for an Egyptian deity. Known as a sky-goddess and the daughter of Ra, Hathor was also identified with Aphrodite. The name was proposed by E...

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3200 Phaethon
3200 Phaethon
3200 Phaethon is an asteroid with an unusual orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid . For this reason, it was named after the Greek myth of Phaëton, son of the sun god Helios...

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3360 Syrinx
3362 Khufu
3362 Khufu
]3362 Khufu is a near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered by R. Scott Dunbar and Maria A. Barucci at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 30, 1984. Its provisional designation was 1984 QA. It is named after Khufu, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.Khufu crosses the orbits...
3554 Amun
3554 Amun
3554 Amun is an M-type Aten asteroid and a Venus-crosser. It was discovered on 4 March 1986 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Mount Palomar Observatory. Its estimated diameter is 2.5 kilometers, making it one of the smallest known M-type asteroids.Amun was once considered metallic, based on its...
3753 Cruithne
3753 Cruithne
3753 Cruithne is an asteroid in orbit around the Sun in approximate 1:1 orbital resonance with the Earth. It is a periodic inclusion planetoid orbiting the Sun in an apparent horseshoe orbit. It has been incorrectly called "Earth's second moon", but it is only a quasi-satellite. Cruithne never...
3838 Epona
3838 Epona
3838 Epona is an Apollo asteroid, Mercury grazer, and near-Earth object discovered on November 27, 1986 by Maury, A. at Palomar Observatory.-References:...

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(4034) 1986 PA
(4034) 1986 PA
4034 Vishnu is an Apollo asteroid, 0.8 kilometers in diameter. It completes one revolution around the Sun almost once every year. It was disclovered by Eleanor F. Helin at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California on August 2, 1986...
4183 Cuno
4183 Cuno
4183 Cuno is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid. It was discovered in 1959 by Cuno Hoffmeister, from whom the asteroid takes its name....

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(4197) 1982 TA
(4197) 1982 TA
1982 TA was discovered on October 11, 1982, by Eleanor F. Helin and Eugene Shoemaker. It is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid, only 1.7 km in diameter....
4341 Poseidon
4341 Poseidon
4341 Poseidon is a Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on May 29, 1987 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
4450 Pan
4450 Pan
4450 Pan is an asteroid that was discovered on September 25, 1987 by Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker. It is a Venus, Mars, and Earth crosser. Pan approaches nearer than 10 Gm to those three planets, and within 20 Gm of Mercury.-External links:...
4581 Asclepius
4581 Asclepius
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4769 Castalia
4769 Castalia
The asteroid 4769 Castalia was the first asteroid to be modeled by radar imaging. It is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid. It was discovered on August 9, 1989, by Eleanor F. Helin on photographic plates taken at Palomar Observatory...
(4953) 1990 MU
(5131) 1990 BG
(5131) 1990 BG
1990 BG is an Apollo-type near-Earth minor planet. It was discovered by Eleanor F. Helin and Brian P. Roman at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on January 21, 1990.-External links:*...
5143 Heracles
5143 Heracles
5143 Heracles is an Apollo asteroid, Mercury grazer, Mars crosser and near-Earth object discovered on November 7, 1991 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar Observatory.-References:...

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5381 Sekhmet
5381 Sekhmet
5381 Sekhmet is an Aten asteroid whose orbit is sometimes closer to the Sun than the Earth's. It was discovered on 14 May 1991 by Carolyn Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory...
(5590) 1990 VA
(5590) 1990 VA
1990 VA is an Aten-type near-Earth minor planet. It was discovered by the Spacewatch project at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona on November 9, 1990.-External links:*...
(5604) 1992 FE
(5604) 1992 FE
1992 FE is an Aten-type near-Earth minor planet. It was discovered by Robert H. McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Canberra, Australia, on March 26, 1992.-External links:*...
(5660) 1974 MA
(5660) 1974 MA
1974 MA is an Apollo-type near-Earth minor planet. It was discovered by Charles T. Kowal at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on June 26, 1974.-External links:*...

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(5693) 1993 EA
(5693) 1993 EA
1993 EA is an Apollo-type near-Earth minor planet. It was discovered by the Spacewatch project at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona on March 3, 1993. It is listed as a potentially hazardous object.-External links:*...
5786 Talos
5786 Talos
5786 Talos is a Apollo asteroid discovered on September 3, 1991 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring.-References:...

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(5828) 1991 AM
(5828) 1991 AM
1991 AM is an Apollo-type near-Earth minor planet. It was discovered by the Spacewatch project at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona on January 14, 1991.-External links:*...
(6037) 1988 EG
(6037) 1988 EG
1988 EG is an Apollo-type near-Earth minor planet. It was discovered by Jeff T. Alu at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on March 12, 1988. It is listed as a potentially hazardous object.-External links:*...
6063 Jason
6063 Jason
6063 Jason is an Apollo asteroid discovered on May 27, 1984 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar. Its highly eccentric orbit crosses the orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus. From 1800 to 2200 it approached a planet within 30 Gm 69 times: Mercury 11, Venus 27, Earth 18, and Mars 13 times.-...
6239 Minos
6239 Minos
6239 Minos is an Apollo asteroid and classified as a PHA discovered on August 31, 1989 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...
(8035) 1992 TB †
(8176) 1991 WA
(8176) 1991 WA
1991 WA is a near-Earth minor planet in the Apollo group. It was discovered by Robert H. McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, on November 29, 1991.-References:...
(8507) 1991 CB₁
(9162) 1987 OA
(9202) 1993 PB
(10145) 1994 CK₁
(10165) 1995 BL₂
(11500) 1989 UR
(16816) 1997 UF₉
(16960) 1998 QS₅₂ ‡
(17182) 1999 VU
(22753) 1998 WT
(24443) 2000 OG ‡
(26379) 1999 HZ₁
(30997) 1995 UO₅
(31662) 1999 HP₁₁ †
(33342) 1998 WT₂₄
(33342) 1998 WT24
' is an Aten asteroid located in Venus' zone of influence that has frequent close encounters with Mercury, Venus, and Earth...

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(36284) 2000 DM₈
37655 Illapa
37655 Illapa
37655 Illapa is an Apollo asteroid discovered on August 1, 1994 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

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(38086) 1999 JB
(40267) 1999 GJ₄ ‡
(41429) 2000 GE₂
(52750) 1998 KK₁₇
(55532) 2001 WG₂
(65679) 1989 UQ
(65733) 1994 PC
(65909) 1998 FH₁₂
(66063) 1998 RO₁ ‡
(66146) 1998 TU₃ ‡
(66253) 1999 GT₃ ‡
(66391) 1999 KW₄
(66391) 1999 KW4
' is an Aten and Mercury-crosser asteroid discovered by LINEAR in 1999. has a moon orbiting it. The moon, designated S/2001 1 or '1999 KW4 Beta' is ~360 m in diameter, and orbits 'Alpha' in 0.758 d at a distance of 2.6 km...

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(66400) 1999 LT₇ ‡
(67381) 2000 OL₈
(68347) 2001 KB₆₇
(68348) 2001 LO₇ ‡
(68950) 2002 QF₁₅
(68950) 2002 QF15
' is a near-Earth object that will come as near as 7.5 Gm to the Earth on May 18, 2044....
69230 Hermes
69230 Hermes
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(85182) 1991 AQ
(85713) 1998 SS₄₉
(85770) 1998 UP₁
(85770) 1998 UP1
' is a near Earth, Aten asteroid orbiting at nearly a 1:1 resonance with Earth.-Orbit:With an orbital period of 364.48 d, is in a near perfect 1:1 orbital Resonance with Earth. Although their periods are almost identical, their orbits are very different; has a highly eccentric orbit and moves...
(85953) 1999 FK₂₁ ‡
(85989) 1999 JD₆ ‡
(85990) 1999 JV₆
(86450) 2000 CK₃₃
(86667) 2000 FO₁₀ ‡
(86829) 2000 GR₁₄₆
(86878) 2000 HD₂₄
(87025) 2000 JT₆₆
(87309) 2000 QP ‡
(87684) 2000 SY₂ ‡
(88213) 2001 AF₂ ‡
(88254) 2001 FM₁₂₉ ‡
(89958) 2002 LY₄₅ ‡
(90367) 2003 LC₅

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