Mallard is a large asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the main portion of the asteroid belt. NASA JPL has not classified Mallard as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth.
Mallard orbits the sun every 2,040 days (5.59 years), coming as close as 2.60 AU and reaching as far as 3.70 AU from the sun. Mallard is about 13.1 kilometers in diameter, making it larger than 99% of asteroids, comparable in size to the city of Cleveland, Ohio.
The rotation of Mallard has been observed. It completes a rotation on its axis every 176.27 hours.
Mallard's orbit is 1.61 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.
Mallard's orbit is determined by observations dating back to Oct. 20, 1954. It was last officially observed on April 25, 2023. The IAU Minor Planet Center records 2,345 observations used to determine its orbit.
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