Mars-crosser asteroid

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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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The minor planetsedit
Vulcanoids | Near-Earth asteroids | Main belt | Jupiter Trojans | Centaurs | Damocloids | Comets | Trans-Neptunians (Kuiper belt · Scattered disc · Oort cloud)
For other objects and regions, see: asteroid groups and families, binary asteroids, asteroid moons and the Solar system
For a complete listing, see: List of asteroids. See also Pronunciation of asteroid names and Meanings of asteroid names.
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