2018-06-30

Asteroid Day

Asteroid Day    
Today is Asteroid Day.

AKA "International" Asteroid Day, it falls on the anniversary of the Tunguska event in Siberia which fell on June 30th, 1908, and is the the most devastating recent asteroid-related event on the planet.

The day is dedicated to study of the asteroid and associated risks of impact on the Earth.
The main three goals are:

Employ available technology to detect and track Near-Earth Asteroids that threaten human populations via governments and private and philanthropic organisations.

A rapid hundred-fold acceleration of the discovery and tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids to 100,000 per year within the next ten years.

Global adoption of Asteroid Day, heightening awareness of the asteroid hazard and our efforts to prevent impacts, on June 30 - With the United Nations recognition, this action item has been achieved.

From the Asteriod Day Declaration