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TIL that "Zoozve", an asteroid and quasi-moon of Venus, is named for a typo on a children's poster when the artist misread the object's provisional designation "2002VE" as "ZOOZVE". A podcast host noticed it on his son's poster, asked the discoverer to submit the name to the IAU, which accepted it.

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