{"id":10863,"date":"2015-07-01T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2015-07-01T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:43:12","slug":"asteroid-day-reports-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10863","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Day reports and videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u00a0was the 107th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunguska_event\" target=\"_d\">Tunguska<\/a>\u00a0 airburst that leveled a 2000 square kilometer area of forest in Siberia. So June 30th is now commemorated as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asteroidday.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Asteroid Day<\/a>\u00a0and there were various events and many articles about asteroids and the threat of asteroid and comet impacts on earth. \u00a0For example,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/bruce-betts\/2015\/0630-5-steps-to-preventing-asteroid-impact.html?referrer=http:\/\/planetary.org\/\" target=\"_d\">5 Steps to Preventing Asteroid Impact\u00a0-The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/asteroid-day-raising-awareness-earth-could-be-hit-by-asteroids\/\" target=\"_d\">On Asteroid Day, raising awareness that Earth could get hit again &#8211; CBS News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/06\/30\/the-greatest-threat-of-planetary-extinction-that-were-all-not-talking-about\/\" target=\"_d\">The greatest threat of planetary extinction that we\u2019re all not talking about &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/jun\/30\/search-deadly-asteroids-protect-earth-brian-may-lord-rees\" target=\"_d\">Search for deadly asteroids must be accelerated to protect Earth, say experts &#8211;\u00a0The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/nasas-mission-vacuum-asteroid-bennu\/\" target=\"_d\">How do you vacuum an asteroid traveling 63,000 mph? &#8211; NPR<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brian May, guitarist for Queen and an astrophysicist, talks about the asteroid threat:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ec3GL30FHPc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>May did the soundtrack for this short film for Asteroid Day:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RMh4eeh79bs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here two\u00a0Planetary Radio Live reports on a conference in Italy:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0iTihNrwyWw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3MNERI2uhQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u00a0was the 107th anniversary of the Tunguska\u00a0 airburst that leveled a 2000 square kilometer area of forest in Siberia. So June 30th is now commemorated as\u00a0Asteroid Day\u00a0and there were various events and many articles about asteroids and the threat of asteroid and comet impacts on earth. \u00a0For example, 5 Steps to Preventing Asteroid Impact\u00a0-The Planetary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Asteroid Day reports and videos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,37,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-events","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Pd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16299,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16299","url_meta":{"origin":10863,"position":0},"title":"Asteroid Day to include live webcast from Luxembourg + Hayabusa2 arrives at asteroid Ryugu","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Asteroid Day is this Saturday, June 30th. 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