Happy International Asteroid Day, everyone!
What is International Asteroid Day? Well, it's a day to raise awareness of asteroids and the potential damage they could cause to Earth. This day was founded in 2014 one year after the event known as the Chelyabinsk meteor air burst. Among the founders was Stephen Hawking, filmmaker Grigorij Richters (who made the British sci-fi film 51 Degrees North, about asteroids hitting the Earth), and Queen
June 30 was the date chosen because it also is connected to asteroids. On this day in 1908, the Tunguska explosion occurred in Siberia. If you want to learn more about this day, you can go here. Thanks for reading this blog entry! See you next time!
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