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A Jupiter-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Jupiter. Jupiter's Trojans are inner grazers (105), outer grazers (52), co-orbitals (183) or crossers (537); if we remove them from the list, the remaining known numbered Jupiter-crossers are (notice that there are no non-Trojan outer-grazers):

Note: † denotes inner-grazer.

Inner-grazer: middle, top;Outer-grazer: middle, bottom;Crosser: right, bottom;Co-orbital: right, top
Inner-grazer: middle, top;
Outer-grazer: middle, bottom;
Crosser: right, bottom;
Co-orbital: right, top

The minor planets
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 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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