Why is it celebrated every year on June 30?

Although it is not yet a very well-known day internationally, the ‘Asteroid Day‘ is celebrated every year on June 30 with the aim of raising awareness among the population about the risks that asteroids pose to our planet. An initiative born not long ago, after the shocking event in Chelyabinsk, which occurred on February 15, 2013, when a meteoroid 18 meters in diameter exploded over the Russian city of the same namecausing more than 1,500 injuries.

The explosion was so powerful that it was equivalent to 30 Hiroshima bombs and made it clear that it was needed Greater vigilance and preparation for possible bolides that could threaten our planet again. This is how in October 2014, a group of scientists and personalities decided to create the ‘Asteroid Day‘. His goal was Coordinate global activities and conferences to raise public awareness of the danger of asteroid impacts.

Two years later, the United Nations (UN) itself supported the initiative and officially designated June 30 as the ‘International Day of the Asteoirdes‘And why June 30? Because in 1908 one of these asteroids hit the Tunguska Earth, a most mysterious devastation that took place in Russian Siberia and crushed approximately 80 million trees.