It's International Asteroid Day, an annual event intended to raise awareness about the potential hazards that asteroids pose to our planet.
Thursday is International Asteroid Day, an annual event intended to raise awareness about the potential hazards that asteroids pose to our planet.
It's also the anniversary of the Tunguska event, a massive 1908 explosion in the skies above Siberia. The event has been described as the largest asteroid impact in recorded history, although no crater was ever found. "It was probably something on the order of 30 meters in size, because it did not reach the ground and it literally flattened the forest in the area of, like, more than 2,000 square kilometers," said Maria Brozovic, a physicist at NASA.Support for LAist comes from
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