Baton Rouge is a large asteroid that orbits between Mars and Jupiter in the outer reaches of the main asteroid belt. NASA JPL has not classified Baton Rouge as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth.
Baton Rouge orbits the sun every 2,870 days (7.86 years), coming as close as 2.97 AU and reaching as far as 4.93 AU from the sun. Baton Rouge is about 16.7 kilometers in diameter, making it larger than 99% of asteroids, comparable in size to the city of Philadelphia.
The rotation of Baton Rouge has been observed. It completes a rotation on its axis every 5.60 hours.
Baton Rouge's orbit is 2.01 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.
Baton Rouge's orbit is determined by observations dating back to Dec. 16, 1976. It was last officially observed on March 5, 2023. The IAU Minor Planet Center records 2,394 observations used to determine its orbit.
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