Asteroid Day 2020: Raising awareness about threat posed by near-earth asteroids, since 2016

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In December 2016, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 30 as the International Asteroid Day, to be observed annually.

The day is aimed at creating awareness among the people regarding the near-earth objects (NEO) that can be “potentially catastrophic threats” to our planet. Comets and asteroids constitute NEOs.

According to the UN, the International Asteroid Day focuses on raising public awareness about the “asteroid impact hazard” and to inform the public about the “crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case of a credible near-Earth object threat”.

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