Posted on 06/29/2016 8:57:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hundreds of events – films, concerts, panels with engineers, scientists and astronauts – about asteroids and how to protect our planet from asteroid impacts.
The second annual Asteroid Day happens on June 30, 2016. Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign to help people learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet from asteroid impacts. You can join the Asteroid Day discussion on Twitter and Facebook.
Asteroid Day 2016 will also include hundreds of events – films, concerts, interactive workshops and panels with engineers, scientists and astronauts.
Here’s the premise of Asteroid Day, in the words of co-founder Dr. Brian May, astrophysicist, guitarist and songwriter for the band Queen:
Our goal is to dedicate one day each year to learn about asteroids, the origins of our universe, and to support the resources necessary to see, track and deflect dangerous asteroids from Earth’s orbital path. Asteroids are a natural disaster we know how to prevent.
Asteroid Day is held on the anniversary of the largest asteroid impact in Earth’s recent history – an event known as the Siberia Tunguska explosion. On June 30, 1908, a small asteroid exploded over Tunguska, Siberia. It released the equivalent of 100 tons of TNT, devastating an area of about 800 square miles – the size of a major metropolitan city.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is an Asteroid Day partner. ESA asteroid specialists will be participating at events in Barcelona, Munich and Heidelberg. Ian Carnelli, project manager for ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission, spoke from the ESTEC technical centre at Noordwijk, the Netherlands:
ESA has been studying the role of space missions to address the asteroid hazard over the last 15 years.
Today we have the technology to change the path of an asteroid, but we need to test our technology in space and learn if our models are correct by measuring all the relevant parameters.
Asteroid Day media partner, Discovery Science will dedicate the entire day on June 30 to asteroid programming.
An object entered the atmosphere over the Urals early in the morning of 15 February 2013. The fireball exploded above Chelyabinsk city, and the resulting overpressure caused damage to buildings and injuries to hundreds of people. This photo was taken by Alex Alishevskikh from about a minute after noticing the blast. Photo credit: Alex Alishevskikh/Flickr An object entered the atmosphere over the Urals early in the morning of February 15, 2013. The fireball exploded above Chelyabinsk city, and the resulting overpressure caused damage to buildings and injuries to some 1,500 people. This photo was taken by Alex Alishevskikh from about a minute after noticing the blast. Photo via Alex Alishevskikh/Flickr
Bottom line: Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign to help people learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet from asteroid impacts. The second annual Asteroid Day happens on June 30, 2016.
The headline got my hopes up. Thought that tomorrow would be the day we got hit with a asteroid the size of a house.
I’ll have to get a tube of “Preparation A”!!
If a mile wide asteroid comes our way, KYAG
Tunguska = 100 tons of TNT??? Does anyone proof anymore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOEyCk-YVBo
Asteroid Final Impact TV Movie 2015 Trailer
- what happens if the earth is in danger, and Bruce Willis is not available???
Wow, how about that.......
*ping*
Thanks fieldmarshaldj, extra to APoD.
Will there be a Rock Concert?..........................
Fat bottomed asteroids?
LOL!
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