- List of Mercury-crossing minor planets
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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), while 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 inner grazers.
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Mercury crossers
Mercury crossers proper have aphelia outside Mercury's (0.4667 AU) and perihelia inside Mercury's (0.3075 AU). There are currently 182 Mercury crossers known.[1] Values have been rounded to three decimals.
Designation
numberName Perihelion
(AU)Semi-major
axis (AU)Aphelion
(AU)Inclination
(°)Eccentricity Orbit
classNotes 137924 2000 BD19 0.092 0.876 1.661 25.689 0.8950 Aten Has the smallest perihelion of any numbered asteroid.[1] 276033 2002 AJ129 0.117 1.371 2.625 15.494 0.9149 Apollo Has the second-smallest perihelion of any numbered asteroid. 3200 Phaethon 0.140 1.271 2.403 22.210 0.8901 Apollo Has the smallest perihelion of any named asteroid. 89958 Apollo 1566 Icarus 0.187 1.078 1.969 22.828 0.8268 Apollo First Mercury crosser to have been discovered. 5786 Talos 0.187 1.081 1.976 23.235 0.8268 Apollo 66391 1999 KW4 0.200 0.642 1.084 38.888 0.6884 Aten 66253 Apollo 85953 Aten 40267 Apollo 66063 Aten 87684 Aten 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). There are currently 391 Mercury grazers known.[2] Values have been rounded to three decimals.
Designation
numberName Perihelion
(AU)Semi-major axis
(AU)Aphelion
(AU)Inclination
(°)Eccentricity Orbit
classNotes 16960 Apollo 85989 Aten 68348 Apollo 86667 Aten 2212 Hephaistos 0.358 2.167 3.975 11.741 0.8348 Apollo 66400 Aten 37655 Illapa 0.366 1.478 2.590 17.994 0.7524 Apollo 88213 Aten Apollo 66146 Aten 24443 2000 OG 0.411 2.310 4.210 25.822 0.8223 Apollo 5143 Heracles 0.418 1.834 3.250 9.033 0.7721 Apollo 33342 1998 WT24 0.418 0.718 1.019 7.343 0.4180 Aten 5660 1974 MA 0.424 1.786 3.147 38.052 0.7623 Apollo 88254 Apollo 2101 Adonis 0.442 1.875 3.307 1.333 0.7641 Apollo 3838 Epona 0.448 1.505 2.561 29.239 0.7020 Apollo 87309 2000 QP 0.455 0.847 1.240 34.743 0.4631 Aten 2340 Hathor 0.464 0.844 1.224 5.856 0.4498 Aten 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
- ^ a b List of asteroids with q<0.3075 AU generated by the JPL Small-Body Database Search Engine Retrieved 2011-11-01
- ^ List of asteroids with 0.3075 AU<q<0.4667 AU generated by the JPL Small-Body Database Search Engine Retrieved 2011-11-01
External links
- Very Close Approaches (<0.01 A.U.) of PHAs to Mercury 1800–2200
- Upcoming Close Approaches (<0.10 A.U.) of Near-Earth Objects to Mercury
- Planetary Close Encounters for the next 200 years
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Other topics - Mercury in fiction (Mercury in the fiction of Leigh Brackett)
- Mercury-crossing asteroids
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