Asteroid Day
June 30
30 June 2021: Asteroid Day
Asteroid Day or International Asteroid Day) is June 30 every year, an annual global asteroid-related event on Earth which is held on the anniversary of the Siberian Tunguska event that took place on June 30, 1908.
According to the AsteroidDay.org website, over 2000 events participated in global activities on June 30 in its first five years across 78 countries.41 astronauts and cosmonauts participated in activities on the day. The general goal was to raise awareness about the threat posed by asteroid impacts.
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.