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
International Asteroid Day
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
International Asteroid Day
International Asteroid Day
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