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World Day 30th June 2021

Asteroid Day (also known as International ) is an annual global event which is held on the anniversary of the Siberian that took place on June 30, 1908, the most harmful known asteroid-related event on Earth in recent history.[1][2][3] The United Nations has proclaimed it be observed globally on June 30 every year in its resolution. Asteroid Day aims to raise awareness about and what can be done to protect the Earth, its families, communities, and future generations from a catastrophic event. For example, 2014 HQ124, discovered April 23, 2014, went past 1,250,000 km from Earth the same year, June 8th, only 46 days after discovery, and 2015

TB145, went past at 490,000 km only 21 days after its discovery.

History Asteroid Day was co-founded by , filmmaker , President, Danica Remy, Apollo 9 astronaut and , Queen guitarist and astrophysicist.[3] [4] Over 200 astronauts, scientists, technologists and artists, including Richard Dawkins, Bill Nye, Peter Gabriel, , Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, Alexei Leonov, Bill Anders, Kip Thorne, Lord Martin Rees, Chris Hadfield, Rusty Schweickart and Brian Cox co-signed the Asteroid Day Declaration.[2][5] Asteroid Day was officially launched on December 3, 2014.[6] In February 2014, Brian May began working with Grigorij Richters, director of the film 51 Degrees North, the story of a fictional asteroid impact on London and the human condition resulting from such an event. May composed the music for the film.[7][8][9] After screening the film at the 2014 , Remy, Schweickart, Richters and May co-founded Asteroid Day in October 2014 which they officially announced during a press conference with Lord Martin Rees, Rusty Schweickart, Ed Lu, Thomas Jones, Ryan Watt and Bill Nye. The event was live streamed from the Science Museum in London, the California Academy of Sciences, New York and São Paulo.[10] On Asteroid Day 2017, 248750 (discoverer M. Dawson) was officially named Asteroidday by the International Astronomical Union.