Asteroid 7010, Locke, was discovered on August 28, 1987 by Eric W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. It has a period of 3 years, 166 days and is slightly less than 2 3/5 miles in diameter.
It was named for the British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a highly influential thinker of the Era of Enlightenment.
John Locke
The meaning of asteroid Locke seems to be locks, locked out, locked up; also, the ideas of John Locke, such as empiricism (the idea that human knowledge comes from experience) and religious freedom and the separation of church and state.