Patrick Gene is a mid-sized asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the main portion of the asteroid belt. NASA JPL has not classified Patrick Gene as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth.
Patrick Gene orbits the sun every 1,720 days (4.71 years), coming as close as 2.43 AU and reaching as far as 3.18 AU from the sun. Patrick Gene is about 8.5 kilometers in diameter, making it larger than 99% of asteroids, comparable in size to the San Francisco Bay.
The rotation of Patrick Gene has been observed. It completes a rotation on its axis every 7.61 hours.
Patrick Gene's spectral type None (Tholen) / S (SMASSII) indicates that it is likely to contain and .
Patrick Gene'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.
Patrick Gene's orbit is determined by observations dating back to Aug. 18, 1949. It was last officially observed on June 25, 2023. The IAU Minor Planet Center records 4,262 observations used to determine its orbit.
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