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    A quasi-satellite is an object in a specific type of co-orbital configuration (1:1 orbital resonance) with a planet (or dwarf planet) where the object...
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    The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), also known as Michibiki (みちびき), is a four-satellite regional satellite navigation system and a satellite-based...
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    be a quasi-satellite of Pluto, a specific type of co-orbital configuration. According to the calculations, the object would be a quasi-satellite of Pluto...
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    first quasi-satellite to be discovered, in 2002, although it was not immediately recognized as such. Zoozve was identified as a quasi-satellite of Venus...
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    quasi-satellite of Earth. As it orbits the Sun, 469219 Kamoʻoalewa appears to circle around Earth as well. It is too distant to be a true satellite of...
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    term, asteroids can transfer between horseshoe orbits and quasi-satellite orbits. Quasi-satellites aren't gravitationally bound to their planet, but appear...
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    Raúl (2016). "The analemma criterion: accidental quasi-satellites are indeed true quasi-satellites". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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    At present it is a quasi-satellite of Earth, and currently the second-smallest, closest, and most stable known such quasi-satellite (after 2023 FW13)....
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  • 180° from the larger body. Objects librating around 0° are called quasi-satellites. An exchange orbit occurs when two co-orbital objects are of similar...
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  • to orbit Earth, but well outside Earth's Hill sphere, making it a quasi-satellite. The orbit of 2023 FW13 has a one-to-one resonance with Earth and is...
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