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Asteroid Day 2016 Is June 30
Earthsky ^ | June 29, 2016 | Eleanor Imster

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.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Hobbies; Science
KEYWORDS: asteroidday; asteroids; catastrophism; impact; spacewatch

1 posted on 06/29/2016 8:57:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The headline got my hopes up. Thought that tomorrow would be the day we got hit with a asteroid the size of a house.


2 posted on 06/29/2016 10:12:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll have to get a tube of “Preparation A”!!


3 posted on 06/29/2016 10:26:08 PM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: nickcarraway

If a mile wide asteroid comes our way, KYAG


4 posted on 06/29/2016 10:38:50 PM PDT by sagar
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To: nickcarraway

Tunguska = 100 tons of TNT??? Does anyone proof anymore?


5 posted on 06/29/2016 11:25:09 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: nickcarraway

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???


6 posted on 06/30/2016 3:40:44 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: nickcarraway
co-founder Dr. Brian May, astrophysicist, guitarist and songwriter for the band Queen:

Wow, how about that.......

7 posted on 06/30/2016 3:45:44 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Hillary and whoever = one big bowl of stupid!)
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To: Pollster1
The Great Gig in the Sky
8 posted on 06/30/2016 3:53:37 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Pollster1
The Great Gig in the Sky
9 posted on 06/30/2016 3:53:38 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


10 posted on 06/30/2016 9:38:38 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; disndat; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj, extra to APoD.

11 posted on 06/30/2016 10:24:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

12 posted on 06/30/2016 10:28:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: nickcarraway

Will there be a Rock Concert?..........................


13 posted on 06/30/2016 10:40:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Godebert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avrqo0rC7cw


14 posted on 06/30/2016 10:41:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Fat bottomed asteroids?


15 posted on 06/30/2016 10:44:07 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Fat bottomed asteroids?

LOL!

16 posted on 06/30/2016 10:57:17 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Hillary and whoever = one big bowl of stupid!)
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