International Asteroids Day 2021
ASTEROID DAY Asteroid day is a global awareness campaign where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroid and what we do to protect our planet family ,opportunities and future generation from future asteroid impacts Asteroid day was co-founded by astrophysicist and famed musician Dr Brian May of the rock group Queen, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, filmmaker Grig Richards and B612 Foundation President Danica Reme. In December 2016 the, United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution declaring June 30 as the international asteroid day in order to "observe each year at the international level the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard". Asteroids are small, rocky objects orbiting the Sun. They are also known as leftover material of the Solar System and found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter (asteroid belt ).Their size ranges from about the size