List of Mercury-crossing asteroids

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A Mercury-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mercury. The Mercury crossers proper have aphelia outside Mercury's and perihelia inside, while those listed here as outer grazers have perihelia within Mercury's aphelion but not within its perihelion.

Outer grazers
2101 Adonis	(66146) 1998 TU₃
2212 Hephaistos	(66400) 1999 LT₇
2340 Hathor	(68348) 2001 LO₇
3838 Epona	(85953) 1999 FK₂₁
5143 Heracles	(85989) 1999 JD₆
(5660) 1974 MA	(86667) 2000 FO₁₀
(16960) 1998 QS₅₂	(87309) 2000 QP
(24443) 2000 OG	(88213) 2001 AF₂
(33342) 1998 WT₂₄	(88254) 2001 FM₁₂₉
37655 Illapa

Mercury-crossers
1566 Icarus
3200 Phaethon
5786 Talos
(40267) 1999 GJ₄
(66063) 1998 RO₁
(66253) 1999 GT₃
(66391) 1999 KW₄
(89958) 2002 LY₄₅
(87684) 2000 SY₂

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