Quasispotnik or quasisatellite – a space object, the period of circulation of which around the Sun corresponds to the period of conversion of the planet around the Sun, i.e. Objects are located in orbital resonance 1: 1. This circumstance allows him to stay near the planet for some time.
Latin Quasi prefix means “like”, i.e. The object is not a full-fledged satellite of the planet, only temporary, since after a while he leaves his orbit. The land had several quasispatnikov. These are asteroids of various sizes – from tens of meters to several kilometers, which remained in the orbits of quasispatnik dozens and hundreds of years.
The last opening time Quasispotnik Earth was discovered in 2016. This is asteroid (469219) Kamalueva (previously 2016 NO3), which, according to scientists, began to contact the orbit of a quasispatnik about 100 years ago. Since the asteroid is located with the earth in the orbital resonance 1: 1, and the distance between the planet and the asteroid varies rather slightly, then from the point of view of the earth observer it seems that he does not appear around the sun, but around the earth.
In fact, it is, of course, not so. The asteroid orbit part is inside the Earth’s orbit, and the part is outside, so it will overtake it when it is inside the earth orbit, it is lagging behind when it is outside, creating, thus, for the earth observer, the illusion of appeals around our planet.
Kamalueva is a very small asteroid with a diameter of approximately 40-100 meters, from the Apollo group. Since it was opened with the PAN-STARRS 1 telescope in the Haleakal Observatory in the Hawaiian Islands, it was named by the Hawaiian Word of Kamalueva, meaning “hesitating”.