Did you know the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was as wide as Malta? 🌍
Learn how the EU is investing in asteroid research to understand them better and help protect Earth. 🚀💥
#InternationalAsteroidDay #HADEA
https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/news/tracking-and-understanding-asteroids-2022-06-30_en https://t.co/P46EH2PGRi

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ECRepMalta/status/1674764817431773189

Happy #InternationalAsteroidDay! 🔭
ERC grantee Pierre Beck @UGrenobleAlpes aims to unravel the mysteries of the asteroid-comet continuum. His research involves investigating and classifying asteroids based on their similarities to comets.
#EUfunded https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magazine/line-getting-fuzzier-asteroids-and-comets-may-be-more-similar-we-think

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1674719457200205824

Today (June 30) is #InternationalAsteroidDay - adopted by the UN in 2016 to "observe each year at the international level the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russian Federation, on 30 June 1908, and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard."

https://www.un.org/en/observances/asteroid-day

my kinda day.