List of Saturn-crossing asteroids

List of Saturn-crossing asteroids

A Saturn-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Saturn. The known numbered Saturn-crossers are listed below. There is only one inner-grazer (944 Hidalgo) and no outer-grazers or co-orbitals known; most if not all of the crossers are Centaurs.

"Notes": † inner-grazer.

* 944 Hidalgo
* 2060 Chiron
* 5145 Pholus
* 5335 Damocles
* 8405 Asbolus
* (15504) 1999 RG33
* 20461 Dioretsa
* 31824 Elatus
* 32532 Thereus
* (37117) 2000 VU2
* 52872 Okyrhoe
* (60558) 2000 EC98
* (63252) 2001 BL41
* (65407) 2002 RP120


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