Civil Protection Arrangements Required for the Impact Hazard from asteroids
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Asteroid Day
Asteroid Day
Asteroid Day
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Asteroid Day is a rising global movement to protect our planet, families, communities and future generations from dangerous asteroids, such as the most recently witnessed asteroid impact event which occurred in Chelyabinsk injuring about 1500 individuals on February 15 2013.
Founders
Asteroid Day
Asteroid Day
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Asteroid Day was co-founded in 2014 by filmmaker Grig Richters, Silicon Valley business leader Danica Remy, Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, and Dr. Brian May, astrophysicist and lead guitarist of Queen
International Asteroid Day
On December 7, 2016, the United Nations General Assembly officially recognised Asteroid Day as an annual event, declaring,“30 June International Asteroid Day to observe each year at the international level, the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russia, on 30 June 1908 and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard.”
Tunguska Event
Asteroid Day is held each year on the anniversary of the largest asteroid impact of Earth in recent history, the Tunguska event, which destroyed about 1000 square kilometers in Siberia on June 30th 1908
Photo Gallery from previous Asteroid Day events in the UK and Luxembourg
Lembit Öpik and Debbie Lewis taken on Asteroid Day June 30th 2017. Photo credit Siobhan Hill
Asteroid Day June 30th 2015 L-R Lewis Dartnell, Prof Richard Crowther, Sir Crispin Tickell, Dr Brian May, Grig Richters, Alan Fitzsimmons, Dr Stuart Clark and Debbie Lewis. Photo credit Max Alexander
Asteroid Day June 30th 2017 L-R Lewis Dartnell, Jonathan R Tate, Lembit Öpik, Debbie Lewis, Jerry Stone, Simon Green, and Peter Birtwhistle. Photo credit Siobhan Hill
Asteroid Day June 30th 2017 L-R Jonathan R Tate, Simon Green, Debbie Lewis, Clemens Rumpf, Jerry Stone and Peter Birtwhistle
Debbie Lewis and Jonathan R Tate in February 2017 at the National Near-Earth Object Information Centre, The Spaceguard Centre, Knighton, Powys
Relaxing on set! Asteroid Day June 2018 L-R Prof Brian Cox, Patrick Michel, Ian Carnelli and Debbie Lewis. Photo credit Mark Boslough
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