Mars-crosser asteroid

A Mars-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars. The known numbered Mars-crossers are listed here. Buried in the list are two peculiar asteroids: 5261 Eureka, the only numbered Martian Trojan, and (26677) 2001 EJ18, Mars' only other numbered co-orbital.

Notes: ¹ inner-grazer; ² outer-grazer; ³ Earth-crosser or grazer

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Inner-grazer(¹): middle, top;
Outer-grazer(²): middle, bottom;
Crosser: right, bottom;
Co-orbital: right, top


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(For other objects and regions, see: Binary asteroids, Asteroid moons and the Solar system)
(For a complete listing, see: List of asteroids. For pronunciation, see: Pronunciation of asteroid names.)

See also: Mars-crosser asteroid, (29075) 1950 DA, (35396) 1997 XF11, (4197) 1982 TA, (52760) 1998 ML14, (53319) 1999 JM8, (6178) 1986 DA, (89959) 2002 NT7, 1036 Ganymed