Jupiter-crosser asteroid

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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
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