Ireland is a large asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the main portion of the asteroid belt. NASA JPL has not classified Ireland as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth.
Ireland orbits the sun every 1,840 days (5.04 years), coming as close as 2.66 AU and reaching as far as 3.20 AU from the sun. Ireland is about 12.0 kilometers in diameter, making it larger than 99% of asteroids, comparable in size to the city of Cleveland, Ohio.
Ireland's orbit is 1.68 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.
Ireland's orbit is determined by observations dating back to Sept. 26, 1971. It was last officially observed on April 22, 2023. The IAU Minor Planet Center records 2,828 observations used to determine its orbit.
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