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Earth-crosser asteroid
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List of Earth-crossing minor planets
An
Earth-crosser
is a
near-Earth asteroid
whose
orbit
crosses that of
Earth
as observed from the
ecliptic pole
of Earth's orbit. The known numbered Earth-crossers are listed here. Those Earth-crossers whose
semi-major axes
are smaller than Earth's are
Aten asteroids
; the remaining ones are
Apollo asteroids
.
(See also the
Amor asteroids
.)
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