Asteroid Day

2026 Asteroid Day Arizona Events

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27 May, 2026
Kerbal Space Program’s Asteroid Day Challenge was a hit! (no pun intended!)

In the weeks leading up to Asteroid Day, Kerbal Space Program hosted a planetary defense challenge with judges Dr. Ed Lu and private astronaut Richard Garriott.   Thank you to the brilliantscientists and engineers around Kerbin who submitted their planetary defense plan for the 2021 Asteroid Day Kerbal...

18 August, 2021
Asteroid Day 2021, Looking up with Hope and Inspiration

[caption id="attachment_27402" align="aligncenter" width="701"] Photo Credit: Hillary Aiken / B612[/caption] On June 30th, individuals, astronomy groups, schools, and organizations will come together, look into the skies and celebrate Asteroid Day. On June 30th, individuals, astronomy groups, schools, museums and organizations from around the world will come together,...

22 June, 2021
B612 Supports Asteroid Education with Asteroid Day TV + Asteroid Day LIVE!

AD LIVE watched by two million viewers and #asteroidday reached more than nine billion impressions with strategic support from B612 Foundation. On June 30th, individuals, astronomy groups, schools, museums and organizations from around the world came together, looked into the skies, and then shifted their gaze...

03 August, 2020
B612 Heads to Luxembourg to Celebrate Asteroid Day

On June 30th, the world came together to celebrate Asteroid Day's 5th anniversary in Luxembourg. B612 co-founders Rusty Schweickart and Dr. Ed Lu, along with B612 President Danica Remy, joined dozens of other asteroid experts from around the world for three incredible events.   Asteroid Day Technical...

22 July, 2019
Rusty Schweickart Speaks About Apollo At Asteroid Day

Rusty Schweickart, Apollo Astronaut, and Asteroid Day and B612 co-founder, gave a moving speech this Asteroid Day about humanity 50 years after Apollo.  “It wasn’t Neil Armstrong who could look back on Earth, but it was all of us. That was the significance of Apollo […]...

09 July, 2019
Today is the Anniversary of Chelyabinsk

Six years ago, a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia injuring over 1,500 people and damaging 7,000 buildings across six cities. This event caused people around the world to ask: What are we doing about asteroids? The answer is: A whole lot. Scientists at the Asteroid Institute are building detection tools to...

15 February, 2019
2018 | B612 Foundation | Annual Report

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30 October, 2018
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