While some may see Donald Trump as the Earth's enemy number one, famed Queen guitarist and doctor Brian May is shining a light on a decidedly more cosmic threat: asteroids. And thanks to him, the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space has just approved "International Asteroid Day" — a new day to help us all realize that an asteroid could indeed wipe out the Earth.
May and some other intellectually-gifted colleagues have been campaigning for asteroid awareness a lot in recent years, and as of today (December 12), their day is UN-approved. Each year, we will now recognize "International Asteroid Day" on June 30, "the anniversary of the largest impact in recent history, the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia."
Via its official website, here's how the Asteroid Day is described: "It is a global awareness campaign where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids, the impact hazard they may pose, and what we can do to protect our planet, families, communities, and future generations from future asteroid impacts."
And following the news today of UN approval, the organization issued the following statement, "We are extremely proud of the UN recognition as we founded Asteroid Day to raise awareness of the asteroid threat and the opportunity for the human species to unite around a single goal: protect our planet from asteroid impacts."
May himself has also stated, "The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time."
You can learn more about Asteroid Day over here.
Pre-order the 40th anniversary edition of Queen's News of the World via MusicVaultz.
May and some other intellectually-gifted colleagues have been campaigning for asteroid awareness a lot in recent years, and as of today (December 12), their day is UN-approved. Each year, we will now recognize "International Asteroid Day" on June 30, "the anniversary of the largest impact in recent history, the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia."
Via its official website, here's how the Asteroid Day is described: "It is a global awareness campaign where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids, the impact hazard they may pose, and what we can do to protect our planet, families, communities, and future generations from future asteroid impacts."
And following the news today of UN approval, the organization issued the following statement, "We are extremely proud of the UN recognition as we founded Asteroid Day to raise awareness of the asteroid threat and the opportunity for the human species to unite around a single goal: protect our planet from asteroid impacts."
May himself has also stated, "The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time."
You can learn more about Asteroid Day over here.
Pre-order the 40th anniversary edition of Queen's News of the World via MusicVaultz.
