Valerio Carruba, a researcher at the University of São Paulo, led the research. Carrubas team suspects there are more than the 20 known co orbital asteroids of Venus, though they may be even harder to detect. Current ground based observations are constrained by periodic observing windows and solar elongation limitations, though the Rubin Observatory may detect some of these objects during favorable configurations, the team wrote in the paper. Space missions based on Venus’ orbits may be...

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