Font selection can have unintended consequences: Zoozve — the strange ‘moon’ of Venus that earned its name by accident

Meanwhile, Landau had been cooking up a hypothesis. That’s actually an understatement. She had fully figured it out. “She just says, ‘I was looking at it, and then I went away and then I looked at it again,'” Nasser remembers.

That poster didn’t say Zoozve, she realized. Those weren’t Z’s. That wasn’t even a moon.

One ordinary day, while taking care of his son, Nasser in reality caught sight of a funny detail on a nearby solar system poster named not Zoozve but rather “2002VE” — a quasi-moon of Venus that was discovered in its namesake year. The first quasi-moon ever found, in fact.

Official bulletin here. Also honored: Diana Gabaldon, of Outlander authorship and great-grandaughter to Stanley Sykes, builder of the telescope used to discover Pluto. Hers is minor planet 2000 KY₆₅, now officially (28890) Gabaldon.