Enkidu, read the “Epic of Gilgamesh” obviously you haven’t, to many years with the Post Office I think.
So, Earth, Moon, Venus, a small planetoid that also tracks Earth's orbit, then Venus' orbit.
So, there's your basic outline of the Epic of Gilgemesh.
The original observations of this object moving to Venus orbit were made in ancient Sumer by Sumerian astronomers. The Epic of Gilgimesh is about Earth, Moon, Venus, a planetoid ~ and a daughter of Venus (Ishtar)
Yeah, I"ve read that epic a lot ever since the fact came out the guys who'd made the observations were part of the civilization that created the epic.
It's a meme created to help the astronomers remember what they'd seen ~ just right there at the time writing was first being developed I"m sure they were concerned that it might not last.
So, what's your question? Why is Inkydoo hairy? What are these animals plays with that no longer want to play with him after he's messed around with the Daughter of Ishtar? Does this body actually consist of a fairly large asteroid AND a flock of smaller ones ~ and just stray pieces of rock picked up in space?
This particular body may be in a highly synchronous orbit involving Earth, the Moon and Venus ~ he moves back and forth between the two orbits, so why not do the moving with some degree of regularity. And, maybe it comes between the Earth and the Moon on its last pass as it takes off for Venus ~ I can see the Moon picking up some of the orbital momentum to slow it down to drop it into Venus orbit for a time.
Pretend you are on the ground in Sumer and a large object comes between you and the Moon and over a period of hours, or maybe days (call Roberta Humphreys to compute the orbits on this one) and you see this play out ~ and let's say some of the associated junk works its way into Earth's atmosphere and goes out in a huge blaze moving off to the West and smacks into a mountain in Bohemia.
I"d think that would be noticed.