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06-30-2018, 05:54 PM
Asteroid Day 2018 is June 30
Eleanor Imster in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | June 28, 2018
The 4th annual Asteroid Day is Saturday. What’s in store? Science, adventure and a 48-hour live webcast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMolurNssM
The fourth annual International Asteroid Day is Saturday, June 30, 2018. Now recognized by the United Nations, Asteroid Day marks a global opportunity to raise awareness of the threat and opportunity posed by the numerous rocky bodies zooming through space.
Asteroid Day is held on the anniversary of the most devastating asteroid impact in Earth’s recent history – an event that took place on June 30, 1908, known as the Tunguska explosion, when a small asteroid struck the Earth over Tunguska, Siberia. It was originally estimated to have released the equivalent of up to 30 megatons of TNT, although, in recent years, the number has been revised downward to perhaps 3 to 5 megatons of TNT. Whatever the actual power of the explosion, it devastated an area of forest about 800 square miles (about 2,000 square km), the size of Greater London.
Join the Asteroid Day 48-hour live broadcast, with content and commentary from asteroid experts, astronauts, policy makers and celebrities around the world, starting June 29, 2018, at 10:00 UTC (6:00 a.m. EDT). You can stream the broadcast for free from the Asteroid Day Youtube channel.
Eleanor Imster in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | June 28, 2018
The 4th annual Asteroid Day is Saturday. What’s in store? Science, adventure and a 48-hour live webcast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMolurNssM
The fourth annual International Asteroid Day is Saturday, June 30, 2018. Now recognized by the United Nations, Asteroid Day marks a global opportunity to raise awareness of the threat and opportunity posed by the numerous rocky bodies zooming through space.
Asteroid Day is held on the anniversary of the most devastating asteroid impact in Earth’s recent history – an event that took place on June 30, 1908, known as the Tunguska explosion, when a small asteroid struck the Earth over Tunguska, Siberia. It was originally estimated to have released the equivalent of up to 30 megatons of TNT, although, in recent years, the number has been revised downward to perhaps 3 to 5 megatons of TNT. Whatever the actual power of the explosion, it devastated an area of forest about 800 square miles (about 2,000 square km), the size of Greater London.
Join the Asteroid Day 48-hour live broadcast, with content and commentary from asteroid experts, astronauts, policy makers and celebrities around the world, starting June 29, 2018, at 10:00 UTC (6:00 a.m. EDT). You can stream the broadcast for free from the Asteroid Day Youtube channel.