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Credit: NASA/PL

Organizers of Asteroid Day are staging a special press event tomorrow, February 9^th, making use of multimedia platforms to accommodate speakers from around the world on current research on threatening asteroids.

The press conference is dedicated to reveal the events and partners for Asteroid Day 2016 and will start on Tuesday, February 9 at 1500 CET (1400 UTC). It is being held at ESA’s ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

What is Asteroid Day?

Scheduled for June 30 around the world, this yearly event is a global movement to increase public awareness of potential asteroid collisions and the means to protect Earth. It was co-founded in 2015, by Dr. Brian May, astrophysicist and lead guitarist for the rock band Queen, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, and German filmmaker Grig Richters.

Credit: ESA/ESTEC

Asteroid Day is held on June 30 each year to mark Earth’s largest asteroid impact in recorded history, the Siberia Tunguska event, which devastated over 2000 square km, the size of a major metropolitan city.

In 2015, on the inaugural Asteroid Day, partners organized more than 150 events worldwide, educating millions of people and generating some 4 billion media impressions.

Resources:

To access the webcast, go to:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Asteroid_day/Watch_Asteroid_Day_2016_press_conference

or

http://asteroidday.li/Y2QX3

For additional information on Asteroid Day and the 100X Asteroid Declaration, go to:

http://asteroidday.org/newsroom