Asteroid Day 2016 announcement held at ESA's technology centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands, on 9 February 2016.
Asteroid Day is held on 30 June – the anniversary of the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, at Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908. The first Asteroid Day was launched in 2015, inspiring more than 150 events worldwide, attended by tens of thousands of scientists, academics and member s of the public.
Events are organised independently by museums, research institutes, government agencies, universities, astronomers, filmmakers and concerned citizens.
More info on the ESA website:
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/A...
And
asteroidday.org/
Credit: Max Alexander/Asteroid Day
