A Jupiter-crosser is a

minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''mino ...

whose

orbit In celestial mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as ...

crosses that of

Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth t ...

. Jupiter trojans can be inner grazers (105), outer grazers (52), co-orbitals (183), and crossers (537). Discounting them, there is one numbered, 7 non-numbered, and 19 cometary outer-grazers.JPL Small-Body Database Search Engine, list of Jupiter outer grazers with semimajor axes greater than Jupiter's aphelion
/ref> For the Jupiter trojans, see

List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) This is a list of Jupiter trojans that lie in the Greek camp, an elongated curved region around the leading Lagrangian point (), 60 ° ahead of Jupiter in its orbit. All the asteroids at Jupiter's point have names corresponding to participan ...

and

List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) This is a list of Jupiter trojans that lie in the Trojan camp, an elongated curved region around the trailing Lagrangian point, 60° behind Jupiter. All the asteroids at the trailing point have names corresponding to participants on the Troj ...

Members

Inner grazers

The following is a list of named asteroids that are not Jupiter trojans with a<4.950429, 4.950429JPL Small-Body Database Search Engine, list of named asteroids that are not Jupiter trojans with a<4.950429, 4.950429
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Outer grazers

Jupiter crossers

These are asteroids that cross the orbit of Jupiter in any sort of way, defined simply as having a perihelion less than that of Jupiter's perihelion, and an aphelion greater than Jupiter's aphelion.

Jupiter Crossers

The numbered Jupiter-crossers are (incomplete): ''Note'': † denotes inner-grazer (aphelia outside Jupiter's perihelion and within its aphelion) (from JPL Small-Body Database Search Engine, list of Jupiter inner grazers with semimajor axes less than Jupiter's perihelion
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944 Hidalgo 944 Hidalgo is a centaur and unusual object on an eccentric, cometary-like orbit between the asteroid belt and the outer Solar System, approximately in diameter. Discovered by German astronomer Walter Baade in 1920, it is the first member of t ...

* 1941 Wild † * 2483 Guinevere † *

2959 Scholl 2959 Scholl, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous Hildian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 34 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 September 1983 by English–American astronomer Edward Bowell o ...

† * 3415 Danby † * 3552 Don Quixote * 4446 Carolyn † * 5164 Mullo * 5335 Damocles *

5370 Taranis __NOTOC__ Year 537 ( DXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Second year after the Consulship of Belisarius (or, less frequently, year 1290 ...

† (2:1 resonance) *

6144 Kondojiro 6144 Kondojiro () is an asteroid discovered on March 14, 1994 by Kin Endate and Kazuro Watanabe at the Kitami Observatory in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. It is named after Jiro Kondo, a Japanese Egyptologist and professor of archaeology at Waseda Un ...

* 8373 Stephengould † * 8550 Hesiodos † * 9767 Midsomer Norton † * 10608 Mameta † * † *

12896 Geoffroy 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

† * † * 15231 Ehdita † * 15376 Marták † * * † * † * * † * † *

20461 Dioretsa 20461 Dioretsa is a centaur and damocloid on a retrograde, cometary-like orbit from the outer Solar System. It was discovered on 8 June 1999, by members of the LINEAR team at the Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test Site near Socorro, New Mexico ...

* † * 20898 Fountainhills * 21804 Václavneumann † * † * † *

22647 Levi-Strauss __NOTOC__ Year 647 ( DCXLVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 647 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar er ...

† * † * † * † * † * † * * 37117 Narcissus * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * † * 84011 Jean-Claude † * † * † * † * † * 99862 Kenlevin † * †

References

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Minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''mino ...

Jupiter-crossing minor planets

Members

Inner grazers

Outer grazers

Jupiter Crossers

See also

References