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The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.

Dennis’s work has been the subject of three solo exhibitions – UNDERSTUDIES at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, overturns at Swiss Institute in New York and throwers at Gasworks in London. At Swiss Institute ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...

Once-in-a-millennium event. On 13 April 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass safely at a distance of about 32,000 kilometers above Earth's surface, within the geostationary orbit, posing no ...

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.