[SunkenCiv]

The orbit of Venusian quasi-satellite 2002 VE68. NASA/JPL/Caltech

• The asteroid 2002 VE68 takes the same time as Venus to orbit the sun once.
• The near-Earth asteroid dives as deep as Mercury's orbit and scoots through our planet's neighborhood.
• 2002 VE68's orbit is on shaky ground and will probably leave Venus alone again within 500 years.

[SengirV]

No offense to the OP, but that title is horrible. I hope the author gets laughed at in he science community. Shhesssh.

[VanDeKoik]

I think they are reaching a bit.

[Brilliant]

To me, the more interesting question is what its orbit around Venus looks like.

[NonValueAdded]

Mooned by Venus, hmmmmm ... Laz would hit it; let’s hope it doesn’t hit us.

[mikrofon]

That’s one wild and quasi-satellite!

[anymouse]

Venus stalked? Potential suspect? ;)

[marron]

But approximately 7,000 years ago it had a close encounter with Earth that kicked it into a new orbit...

Does that not fit in with at least one of Velikovsky's theories...?

[editor-surveyor]

Be afraid...

[Yardstick]

Cruithne?

What kind of sci-fi geek name is that? It’s like Cthulu only different. When you let the geeks do the naming, you inevitably get Klingon sounding crap like “Cruithne”.

On the other hand, they’re the ones who spend hours and days and months searching for these things, so there is justice in letting them name them.

So, I guess Cruithne it is.