Niagara Falls is a mid-sized asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the main portion of the asteroid belt. NASA JPL has not classified Niagara Falls as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth.
Niagara Falls orbits the sun every 1,700 days (4.65 years), coming as close as 2.66 AU and reaching as far as 2.91 AU from the sun. Niagara Falls is about 6.5 kilometers in diameter, making it larger than 99% of asteroids, comparable in size to the San Francisco Bay.
Niagara Falls's orbit is 1.64 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.
Niagara Falls's orbit is determined by observations dating back to March 6, 1992. It was last officially observed on Feb. 10, 2023. The IAU Minor Planet Center records 1,571 observations used to determine its orbit.
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The above comparison is an artistic rendering that uses available data on the diameter of Niagara Falls to create an approximate landscape rendering with Mount Everest in the background. This approximation is built for full-resolution desktop browsers. Shape, color, and texture of asteroid are imagined.