Mount Locke is a large asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the main portion of the asteroid belt. NASA JPL has not classified Mount Locke as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth.
Mount Locke orbits the sun every 1,710 days (4.68 years), coming as close as 2.43 AU and reaching as far as 3.17 AU from the sun. Mount Locke is about 10.4 kilometers in diameter, making it larger than 99% of asteroids, comparable in size to the city of Boston.
The rotation of Mount Locke has been observed. It completes a rotation on its axis every 3.02 hours.
Mount Locke's spectral type None (Tholen) / Sr (SMASSII) indicates that it is likely to contain and .
Mount Locke's orbit is 1.42 AU from Earth's orbit at its closest point. This means that there is an extremely wide berth between this asteroid and Earth at all times.
Orbital simulations conducted by NASA JPL's CNEOS do not show any close approaches to Earth.
Mount Locke's orbit is determined by observations dating back to June 2, 1951. It was last officially observed on Dec. 25, 2022. The IAU Minor Planet Center records 3,584 observations used to determine its orbit.
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