List of Mercury-crossing Minor Planets - Mercury Crossers

Mercury Crossers

Mercury crossers proper have aphelia outside Mercury's (0.4667 AU) and perihelia inside Mercury's (0.3075 AU). As of May 2012, there are 191 Mercury crossers known. Values have been rounded to three decimals.

Designation
number		 Name Perihelion
(AU)		 Semi-major
axis (AU)		 Aphelion
(AU)		 Inclination
(°)		 Eccentricity Orbit
class		 Notes
137924 2000 BD19 0.092 0.876 1.661 25.689 0.8950 Aten Has the smallest perihelion of any numbered asteroid.
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 2002 LY45 0.187 1.642 3.097 9.968 0.8864 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 1999 GT3 0.216 1.334 2.452 19.514 0.8378 Apollo
85953 1999 FK21 0.219 0.739 1.258 12.602 0.7031 Aten
40267 1999 GJ4 0.257 1.339 2.421 34.533 0.8082 Apollo
66063 1998 RO1 0.277 0.991 1.704 22.675 0.7200 Aten
87684 2000 SY2 0.307 0.859 1.411 19.232 0.6428 Aten

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