The Asteroid Foundation returns with Asteroid Day Live Digital from Luxembourg. This year, the event is a fully digital celebration of asteroid science and exploration. Round tables and one-on-one interviews with astronauts and world experts will air on June 30, 2020, beginning at 12:00 CEST (10: 0O UTC, 6 am EDT). Visit the streaming schedule to see when Asteroid Day LIVE is playing in your time zone.
The program will be repeated several times a day from June 30 to July 4.
Asteroid Day Live is broadcast through Asteroid Day TV, and the detailed program of the program can be found on the Asteroid Day website. After Asteroid Day on June 30, the various panels will be available on that website, as well as on YouTube.
Asteroid Day is celebrated on June 30 of each year to mark the date of the largest asteroid impact on Earth in recorded history, the Siberia Tunguska event. Asteroid Day was co-founded by astrophysicist and famous musician Dr. Brian May from rock group Queen, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, filmmaker Grig Richters, and B612 Foundation President Danica Remy, to educate the public on the importance of asteroids in our history and the role they play in the solar system. In 2016, under the leadership of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), the United Nations declared Asteroid Day to be a global day of education to raise awareness and promote public awareness of asteroids. For more information, visit AsteroidDay.org.
Each year Asteroid Day presents the public with a snapshot of cutting-edge asteroid research from Earth's largest telescopes to some of the most ambitious space missions. This year's topics of discussion include accelerating the speed of our asteroid discoveries and why it is slated to accelerate even faster, the impending arrival of samples from the asteroid Ryugu and Bennu, the exciting preparations for the United States joint mission. and Europe to the binary asteroid Didymos, and much more.
Early on the morning of February 15, 2013, a small, previously unknown asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere at 37,280 miles per hour (66,000 km / h) and exploded well above Chelyabinsk, Russia, with 20-30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. . Photo via Alex Alishevskikh / Flickr.
Asteroids are the leftover remnants of the birth of planets in the solar system, and many are the broken fragments of these tiny protoplanets that never reached maturity.
Tom Jones, Ph.D., veteran astronaut and planetary scientist, and member of the Asteroid Day Panel of Experts, said:
Asteroid exploration missions tell us about the birth of our own planet and reveal how asteroids can serve astronauts as stepping stones to Mars.
Each asteroid is an individual with its own story to tell. And that's what Asteroid Day is all about: bringing those stories to the widest possible audience.
Ruy Pinto, chief technology officer at SES, said:
Space and science have been an endless source of inspiration for SES! This is one of the reasons why we and our partners continue to do extraordinary things in space to deliver incredible experiences around the world.
Through satellite transmission, we can reach millions of homes with television and this allows us to unite people around issues of science, space and technology.
Mark Serres, the CEO of the Luxembourg Space Agency, said:
The valuable experience of SES and ECB plays a central role in making Asteroid Day an international success and allowing us to have a global conversation about space, space resources and asteroids in these COVID-19 times.
Such studies can also protect our planet. The Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, noted:
An asteroid impact is a natural disaster that we could avoid if we see that one is coming soon enough.
Image via AsteroidDay.org.
Join Luxembourg's Asteroid Day Live Digital to celebrate the magnificent remnants of the solar system.
Luxembourg's Asteroid Day Live Digital is a five-hour panel discussion program that includes:
Panel hosts include Sarah Cruddas, Alan Boyle, Lisa Burke, Sabinije von Gaffke, and Stuart Clark. The summary panel descriptions can be found here.
In the week leading up to Asteroid Day, the European Space Agency will produce several Asteroid Day programs in French, Spanish, Dutch, German, and Italian, including asteroid experts and special guests to discuss European planetary defense and asteroid-related activities. aimed at general audiences in those countries, and ESA premieres a segment in English on June 30 as part of Asteroid Day LIVE from Luxembourg.
In addition to ESA's programs, there are also independent online conversations around the world. "Stones fallen from the sky: the birth of the science of asteroids and meteorites" will come from Spain, and Asteroid Day Chile has organized for more than 20 national institutions to give talks, workshops for children and audiovisual segments. These will air on Facebook Live and YouTube simultaneously on June 29 and 30. These and more can be found online at AsteroidDay.org; only a limited number of independent events are possible this year due to Covid-19.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPCt5t_PZHM[/embed]The history of asteroid day.
Bottom line: The sixth annual asteroid day will take place as a digital event on June 30, 2020. It will feature expert presentations, panel discussions, and question-and-answer periods.
Via AsteroidDay.org
