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A Mars-crossing asteroid (MCA, also Mars-crosser, MC) is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars. Some Mars-crossers numbered below 100000 are listed...

132 Aethra is a metallic asteroid and Mars-crosser on an eccentric orbit from the asteroid belt. It measures approximately 40 kilometers in diameter. It...

in 2000, and landed in 2001. Eros is a Mars-crosser asteroid, the first known to come within the orbit of Mars. Objects in such an orbit can remain there...

orbit is highly eccentric, it crosses the orbits of Venus and Mars and is therefore called a Venus-crosser and Mars-crosser as well. Although Apollo was...

asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group, Mars-crosser and Jupiter-crosser, as well as a weakly active comet. The asteroid was discovered...

3908 Nyx is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Hans-Emil Schuster on August 6, 1980, and is named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of...

astronomer, who, together with astronomer Okuro Oikawa, co-discovered the Mars-crosser asteroid 1139 Atami in 1929. During the Japanese period in Taiwan, he...

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red...

ˈrɒdʒərz/), provisional designation 1993 FR, is a stony asteroid and sizable Mars-crosser on an eccentric orbit from the asteroid belt, approximately 5.1 miles...

as the inner main-belt asteroid (9942) 1989 TM1, remain unnamed. The Mars-crosser asteroid 4910 Kawasato, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth...

the named main-belt asteroid 4555 Josefapérez and 5253 Fredclifford, a Mars-crosser. Singer-Brewster has been an active member of Stony Ridge Observatory...

323 Brucia is a stony Phocaea asteroid and former Mars-crosser from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 33 kilometers (21 miles) in diameter...

ecliptic. Due to this elongated orbit, the asteroid is both, a Mars-crosser and a Venus-crosser. It has a minimum orbit intersection distance with Earth of...

near-Earth object of the Apollo group that is also a Mercury-crosser, Venus-crosser, and Mars-crosser. It was discovered by the LINEAR program on 14 June 2002...

6489 Golevka is an Apollo, Mars-crosser, and Alinda asteroid discovered in 1991 by Eleanor F. Helin. Its name has a complicated origin. In 1995, Golevka...

in October 2006, it was announced that it would be called the C-Crosser. The C-Crosser took its name from the four-wheel drive concept car that Citroën...

near Prague. Besides numerous main-belt asteroids she also discovered Mars-crosser asteroid 9671 Hemera and Hilda family asteroid 21804 Václavneumann. Lenka...

XF11) is a kilometer-sized asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object, Mars-crosser and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. Three months...

named after Castalia, a nymph in Greek mythology. It is also a Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid. On 25 August 1989 Castalia passed 0.0269378 AU (4,029...

Near-Earth Object. It is also a Venus-crosser and a Mars-crosser, although it doesn't make close approaches to Mars. 1992 TB makes close approaches to Earth...