Asteroid Day 2026 is coming next 30 June! Join this live feed 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 (152637) 1997 NC1 close encounter: poster of the event.
ITALIANO: Qui il programma per Asteroid Day Italia 2026
Next 30 June 2026, 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”. In December 2016 the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/71/90, declaring 30 June International Asteroid Day.
To celebrate the 2026 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 offer you a live journey across the realm of near-Earth Asteroids, to see some of them in real-time.
To join, just click here on 26 & 27 June at 23:00 UTC!
External resources
- ENGLISH: Asteroid Day Festival!
- ITALIANO: il Virtual Telescope promuove ufficialmente l’Asteroid Day in Italia.
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