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Comment on: "2005 VL1 is not Venera-2"

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2025-03-14 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

I show that the small differences between the orbital parameters of the dark comet 2005 VL1 and the Venera 2 spacecraft (reported in arXiv:2503.07972) are of the magnitude expected from gravitational deflection by a close encounter of Venera 2 with Venus.

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@article{arxiv.2503.09668,
  title  = {Comment on: "2005 VL1 is not Venera-2"},
  author = {Abraham Loeb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.09668},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

2 pages; Comment on arXiv:2503.07972

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