4182 Mount Locke

Mount Locke
Discovery and designation
Discovered by Yerkes-McDonald
Discovery site Fort Davis, Texas
Discovery date May 2, 1951
Designations
MPC designation 4182
1951 JQ
Orbital characteristics
Epoch May 14, 2008
Aphelion 3.1786144
Perihelion 2.4197760
Eccentricity 0.1355458
1710.5989662
4.21515
Inclination 8.05976
261.80461
30.19518
Physical characteristics
12.2

    4182 Mount Locke (1951 JQ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 2, 1951 by Yerkes-McDonald at Fort Davis, Texas.

    Photometric observations during 2008 showed a rotation period of 3.0175 ± 0.0003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.15 ± 0.03 in magnitude. It was reported to be binary in nature, but later observations did not confirm this.[1]

    References

    1. ↑ Oey, Julian (October 2009), "Lightcurve Analysis of Asteroids from Leura and Kingsgrove Observatory in the Second Half of 2008", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 36 (4): 162–164, Bibcode:2009MPBu...36..162O

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