page_title: List of Mars-crossing minor planets
hierarchical_section_title: List of Mars-crossing minor planets
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Définitions d'orbites&#160;; Une convention possible Les six diagrammes ci-dessus montrent le fr:Soleil au centre (le point orange) et la bande orbitale (en jaune) d'une fr:planète quelconque. Les rebords de cette bande sont définis par le fr:périhélie (rebord intérieur) et l'fr:aphélie (rebord extérieur) de la planète. À gauche, en haut&#160;: L'orbite de la planète mineure est entièrement contenue par celle de la planète &#8212;elle est intérieure. À gauche, en bas&#160;: L'orbite de la planète mineure contient entièrement celle de la planète &#8212;elle est extérieure. Au centre, en haut&#160;: L'orbite de la planète mineure pénètre celle de la planète par l'intérieur sans la traverser &#8212;c'est un frôleur-intérieur. Au centre, en bas&#160;: L'orbite de la planète mineure pénètre celle de la planète par l'extérieur sans la traverser &#8212;c'est un frôleur-extérieur. À droite, en haut&#160;: L'orbite de la planète mineure est entièrement confinée par celle de la planète &#8212;elle est co-orbitale. À droite, en bas&#160;: L'orbite de la planète mineure traverse celle de la planète de l'intérieur à l'extérieur &#8212;c'est un croiseur.
context_page_description: A Mars-crossing asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars. The known numbered Mars-crossers are listed here. They include the two numbered Mars trojans 5261 Eureka and 1998 VF31.
  Many databases, for instance the JPL Small-Body Database, only list asteroids with a perihelion greater than 1.3 AU as Mars-crossers. An asteroid with a perihelion less than this is classed as a near-Earth object even though it is crossing the orbit of Mars as well as crossing that of Earth. Nevertheless, these objects are listed on this page. A grazer is an object with a perihelion below the aphelion of Mars but above the Martian perihelion. The JPL SBDB lists 13,500 Mars-crossing asteroids. Only 18 MCAs are brighter than absolute magnitude 12.5, which typically makes these asteroids with H<12.5 more than 13 km in diameter depending on the albedo. The smallest known MCAs have an absolute magnitude of around 24 and are typically less than 100 meters in diameter.
context_section_description: A Mars-crossing asteroid (MCA, also Mars-crosser, MC) is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars. The known numbered Mars-crossers are listed here. They include the two numbered Mars trojans 5261 Eureka and (101429) 1998 VF31.
  Many databases, for instance the JPL Small-Body Database (JPL SBDB), only list asteroids with a perihelion greater than 1.3 AU as Mars-crossers. An asteroid with a perihelion less than this is classed as a near-Earth object even though it is crossing the orbit of Mars as well as crossing (or coming near to) that of Earth. Nevertheless, these objects are listed on this page. A grazer is an object with a perihelion below the aphelion of Mars (1.67 AU) but above the Martian perihelion (1.38 AU). The JPL SBDB lists 13,500 Mars-crossing asteroids. Only 18 MCAs are brighter than absolute magnitude (H) 12.5, which typically makes these asteroids with H<12.5 more than 13 km in diameter depending on the albedo. The smallest known MCAs have an absolute magnitude (H) of around 24 and are typically less than 100 meters in diameter.
caption: The orbit of Mars (yellow band; varies between 1.381 and 1.666 AU) displayed with 6 theoretically possible orbits for an asteroid (red line). The orbit of a Mars-crosser is displayed in the bottom row on the right. In generic terms, a Mars-crosser has a smaller perihelion and a larger aphelion compared to Mars.
  Special cases include inner-grazers (top row, in the middle) and outer-grazers (bottom row, in the middle), which do not completely cross the orbital band described by Mars. The other three diagrams describe a co-orbital configuration (top row, on the right) where the asteroid's orbit is contained within the orbital band of Mars, as well as a near-Earth asteroid such as an Amor asteroid (top row, on the left) and a main-belt asteroid, for example of the Hungaria family, which orbits are contained completely either inside or outside the orbit of Mars, respectively.
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