Asteroid Day 2024 is coming, next 30 June, to celebrate its 10th Edition! Stay tuned and discover near-Earth asteroids with us, learning what they are, their impact risk and what we can do to mitigate it.
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (415029) 2011 UL21 close encounter: poster of the event.
ITALIANO: Qui il programma per Asteroid Day Italia 2024 (coming soon!)
Next 30 June 2024, anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska event, will be internationally celebrated as the “Asteroid Day“: it is “a global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet, our families, communities, and future generations“. This is the tenth edition, after the first one in 2015 and the very successful 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions. More and more exciting events are coming. In December 2016 the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/71/90, declaring 30 June International Asteroid Day.
To celebrate the 2024 edition of Asteroid Day, the Virtual Telescope Project, the leading facility in the world sharing live, online the most spectacular near-Earth asteroids and their close encounters with our home planet, will officially offer you a live view of the potentially hazardous asteroid (415029) 2011UL21, safely coming relatively close to the Earth, on of the largest asteroids ever coming in the proximity of the Earth.
To join, just click here on 27 June at 20:00 UTC!
External resources
- ENGLISH: Asteroid Day Festival!
- ITALIANO: il Virtual Telescope promuove ufficialmente l’Asteroid Day in Italia.
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