Saturn-crosser asteroid

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A Saturn-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Saturn. The known numbered Saturn-crossers are listed below. There is only one inner-grazer (944 Hidalgo) and no outer-grazers or co-orbitals known; most if not all of the crossers are Centaurs.

Notes: † inner-grazer.

• 944 Hidalgo †
• 2060 Chiron
• 5145 Pholus
• 5335 Damocles
• 8405 Asbolus
• (15504) 1999 RG₃₃
• 20461 Dioretsa
• 31824 Elatus
• 32532 Thereus
• (37117) 2000 VU₂
• 52872 Okyrhoe
• (60558) 2000 EC₉₈
• (63252) 2001 BL₄₁
• (65407) 2002 RP₁₂₀

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