Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: I'm going to talk about this Radiolab episode in class tomorrow about Zoozve: it's ...
I'm going to talk about this Radiolab episode in class tomorrow about Zoozve: it's got orbital dynamics, naming conventions, + human mistakes, all rolled into a delightful story!
https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozveIt's a quasi-satellite = asteroid in a 1:1 mean-motion resonance with Venus. It only looks like a satellite if you plot its position over many orbits relative to Venus. Earth has lots of these that have been discovered!
(...which we'll now find fewer of due to satellite pollution. FU Starlink)
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