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 and perihelia inside Mercury's, 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 and perihelia inside Mercury's., exactly 300 Mercury crossers were known.

Mercury grazers

All Mercury grazers have semi-major axes larger than Mercury's, and hence are outer grazers, i.e. have perihelia within Mercury's aphelion but not within its perihelion., there are 561 Mercury grazers known.
Designation
number		NamePerihelion
Semi-major axis
Aphelion
Inclination
EccentricityAbsolute magnitude Orbit
class		Notes
169600.3132.2034.09317.5600.857714.3Apollo
859890.3240.8831.44117.0540.632817.1Aten
683480.3392.1523.96425.4780.842614.2Apollo
866670.3480.8591.37014.2860.594817.4Aten
2212Hephaistos0.3582.1673.97511.7410.834813.87Apollo
664000.3660.8551.3459.0650.572519.3Aten
37655Illapa0.3661.4782.59017.9940.752417.9Apollo
882130.3860.9541.52217.8120.595219.7Aten
0.4011.6082.81412.0570.750617.6Apollo
661460.4060.7871.1685.4130.483914.5Aten
244430.4112.3104.21025.8220.822316.3Apollo
5143Heracles0.4181.8343.2509.0330.772113.8Apollo
333420.4180.7181.0197.3430.418017.9Aten
56600.4241.7863.14738.0520.762315.4Apollo
3227560.4480.7251.00038.1320.38219.2AtenTemporary horseshoe librator of Venus
5245220.4270.7241.0219.0060.410420.5AtenTemporary quasi-satellite of Venus
0.4100.7231.0366.7110.43323.4AtenTemporary horseshoe librator of Venus
882540.4381.1821.9261.5240.629617.6Apollo
2101Adonis0.4421.8753.3071.3330.764118.8Apollo
3838Epona0.4481.5052.56129.2390.702015.5Apollo
873090.4550.8471.24034.7430.463117.6Aten
2340Hathor0.4640.8441.2245.8560.449820.1Aten