List of Mercury-crossing minor planets
Mercury grazers
All Mercury grazers have semi-major axes larger than Mercury's (0.3871 AU), and hence are outer grazers, i.e. have perihelia within Mercury's aphelion (0.4667 AU) but not within its perihelion (0.3075 AU).

List of Mercury-crossing minor planets

Section Title: Mercury grazers
Table Section Text: All Mercury grazers have semi-major axes larger than Mercury's (0.3871 AU), and hence are outer grazers, i.e. have perihelia within Mercury's aphelion (0.4667 AU) but not within its perihelion (0.3075 AU).

Designation number	Name	Perihelion (AU)	Semi-major axis (AU)	Aphelion (AU)	Inclination (°)	Eccentricity	Absolute magnitude (H)	Orbit class	Notes

16960	1998 QS52	0.313	2.203	4.093	17.560	0.8577	14.3	Apollo

85989	1999 JD6	0.324	0.883	1.441	17.054	0.6328	17.1	Aten

68348	2001 LO7	0.339	2.152	3.964	25.478	0.8426	14.2	Apollo

86667	2000 FO10	0.348	0.859	1.370	14.286	0.5948	17.4	Aten

2212	Hephaistos	0.358	2.167	3.975	11.741	0.8348	13.87	Apollo

66400	1999 LT7	0.366	0.855	1.345	9.065	0.5725	19.3	Aten

37655	Illapa	0.366	1.478	2.590	17.994	0.7524	17.9	Apollo

88213	2001 AF2	0.386	0.954	1.522	17.812	0.5952	19.7	Aten

2008 UU1	0.401	1.608	2.814	12.057	0.7506	17.6	Apollo

66146	1998 TU3	0.406	0.787	1.168	5.413	0.4839	14.5	Aten

24443	2000 OG	0.411	2.310	4.210	25.822	0.8223	16.3	Apollo

5143	Heracles	0.418	1.834	3.250	9.033	0.7721	13.8	Apollo

33342	1998 WT24	0.418	0.718	1.019	7.343	0.4180	17.9	Aten

5660	1974 MA	0.424	1.786	3.147	38.052	0.7623	15.4	Apollo

322756	2001 CK32	0.448	0.725	1.0003	8.132	0.382	19.2	Aten	Temporary horseshoe librator of Venus

2002 VE68	0.427	0.724	1.021	9.006	0.4104	20.5	Aten	Temporary quasi-satellite of Venus

2012 XE133	0.410	0.723	1.036	6.711	0.433	23.4	Aten	Temporary horseshoe librator of Venus

88254	2001 FM129	0.438	1.182	1.926	1.524	0.6296	17.6	Apollo

2101	Adonis	0.442	1.875	3.307	1.333	0.7641	18.8	Apollo

3838	Epona	0.448	1.505	2.561	29.239	0.7020	15.5	Apollo

87309	2000 QP	0.455	0.847	1.240	34.743	0.4631	17.6	Aten

2340	Hathor	0.464	0.844	1.224	5.856	0.4498	20.1	Aten

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Heracles is a Mercury-grazer.

final_sentence: Heracles is a Mercury-grazer.