List of Mercury-crossing minor planets

A Mercury crosser is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mercury. The Mercury crossers proper have aphelia outside Mercury's (0.4667 AU) and perihelia inside Mercury's (0.3075 AU), whereas those listed here as outer grazers have perihelia within Mercury's aphelion but not within its perihelion. All have semi-major axes larger than Mercury's, and hence there are no known inner grazers.

List

Mercury crossers proper have aphelia outside Mercury's (0.4667 AU) and perihelia inside Mercury's (0.3075 AU). As of 18 November 2020, 362 Mercury crossers were known. (Most values have been rounded to three decimals.)

Mercury grazers

All Mercury grazers have semi-major axes larger than Mercury's (0.3871 AU), and hence are outer grazers, i.e. have perihelia within Mercury's aphelion (0.4667 AU) but not within its perihelion (0.3075 AU). As of February 2016, there are 561 Mercury grazers known. (Values have been rounded to three decimals.)

See also

• List of Venus-crossing minor planets
• List of Earth-crossing minor planets
• List of Mars-crossing minor planets
• List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets
• List of Saturn-crossing minor planets
• List of Uranus-crossing minor planets
• List of Neptune-crossing minor planets

References

External links

• Very Close Approaches (<0.01 AU) of PHAs to Mercury 1900–2200
• Upcoming Close Approaches (<0.10 AU) of Near-Earth Objects to Mercury
• Planetary Close Encounters for the next 200 years

1. List of Uranus-crossing minor planets
2. List of Saturn-crossing minor planets
3. List of Neptune-crossing minor planets
4. List of Venus-crossing minor planets
5. List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets
6. List of Mars-crossing minor planets
7. List of exceptional asteroids
8. List of Earth-crossing asteroids
9. List of Solar System objects
10. Minimum orbit intersection distance
11. (89958) 2002 LY45
12. Transit of minor planets
13. 2005 HC4
14. Classical planet
15. 1566 Icarus
16. Planet
17. Solar System
18. Exploration of Mercury
19. Outline of the Solar System
20. Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–4000