#zoozve

[selkiesparrow]

Zoozve, my beloved

[gwydionmisha]

Zoozve — the strange 'moon' of Venus that earned its name by accident

Thanks to the beauty of human error, Radiolab podcasters managed to name a moon.

[bluejb4]

I do not know how to design asteroids lol

Anyway here's Neith again but also Zoozve's here now, and they're both illiterate :P (Jupiter changes this pretty much the first time he meets either of them)

Neith likes mimicking things that the planets do a lot so they just end up doing things like this despite not knowing how to read-

[cerulienne]

do we know about zoozve? has zoozve reached tumblr yet.

zoozve! <3 my new friend zoozve

image descriptions below the cut

[Image 1: A screenshot of a Wikipedia page. Text reads "524522 Zoozve (provisional designation 2002 VE68) is a sub-kilometer sized asteroid and temporary quasi-satellite of Venus. Discovered in 2002, it was the first such object to be discovered around a major planet in the Solar System. In a frame of reference rotating with Venus, it appears to travel around it during one Venerean year, but it orbits the Sun, not Venus."

Image 2: Screenshot of the same Wikipedia page. Text reads "Numbering and Naming:

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 18 May 2019 (M.P.C. 114620).

On 26 January 2024, the Radiolab podcast aired an episode about the asteroid, which co-host Latif Nasser first noticed on his child's solar system poster, where it was referred to as "Zoozve", derived from the artist misreading the asteroid's provisional designation "2002VE". This led Nasser to propose the name "Zoozve", on behalf of Brian Skiff, to the International Astronomical Union's Working Group Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN). The name was approved and announced by the WGSBN on 5 February 2024."

Image 3: A small portion of a solar system poster made for children. Venus, Mercury, and several stars are visible against a black background. A labeled point next to Venus is named "Zoozve".

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[mapswithoutwyoming]

I saw a cool post but it was like 20 undescribed images and a screenshot of an unlinked article, so just go here and learn all about Zoozve, the quasi-moon of Venus that both does and doesn't orbit Venus and that got its name from an artist misreading his own handwriting

[spacekin-culture-is]

Have no idea what spacekin is but like, what's your favorite space rock?

Mine is Io!

Zoozve!! Such an interesting story about such a small rock! :)

Also, here’s an answer about what space kin is if you want to know! :D

what is spacekin? (this is just copy and pasted from the alterhuman wiki because I am absolutely horrid at explaining things 😭😭) Spacekin

[venusianwonders]

If there were inhabitants of Zoozve, Venus's quasi-moon, what would they be called? Zoozvians? Zoozviites? This is a question that needs an answer.

[poughkeepsiesjr]

Just checked with the planetary society website (it’s very legit, it was founded by Carl Sagan. I’ve used a lot of their stuff for research papers) they in fact renamed it.

OH MY FUCKING GOD