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| Asteroid Day Regional Coordinator spots open

April 16, 2017

| Asteroid Day establishes headquarters in Luxembourg

April 14, 2017

Scott Manley and Asteroid Day present the Christmas Edition of Asteroid Update. Scott speaks to Asteroid Day Expert and astronaut Dr. Tom Jones about the recent United Nations decision to declare June 30 as Asteroid Day.

In a candid interview for “Asteroid Education,” Eric Christensen, Director of the Catalina Sky Survey and an Asteroid Day Expert, says that for NASA to meet its congressional mandate to find 90 percent of the 140 meter asteroid population, new ground- and space-based assets are needed to accelerate the rate of discovery.

Scientists Rock is a 7-part video series created by Asteroid Day introducing you to the people working to protect us from asteroids. Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Featuring Brian May, Chris Hadfield and many others.

Asteroid Day has produced “Astronauts in Conversation” – a new film series with legendary space explorers Michel Tognini, Andre Kuipers, Helen Sharman, Richard Richards and Dorin Prunariu.

Watch the feature film 51º North. A filmmaker grappling with the pressures of an impoverished profession and a dissolving relationship. One routine assignment will change his life as he is involved in the disturbing research into Near-Earth Objects.

Between 2000 and 2013, a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1-600 kilotons — all caused not by nuclear explosions, but rather by asteroid impacts.

Video Created by Scott Manley, this is a view of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones.

ESA astronaut Tim Peake wishing everyone a happy Asteroid Day. After his 18 June return from the International Space Station Tim is currently recuperating at the European Astronaut Centre, but took time out to record this message.