1954) Asteroid Day 2021 (30 June), Luxembourg: A Stamp issued by Luxembourg Postes (Luxembourg Post) marking the Asteroid Day: Date of Stamp issue: 23.07.2021:
Asteroid Day (also known as International Asteroid Day) is an annual global event which is held on the Anniversary of the Tunguska event in 1908, when an asteroid leveled about 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi) forest in Siberia.
The United Nations has proclaimed it be observed globally on June 30 every year in its resolution.
Asteroid Day aims to raise awareness about asteroids and what can be done to protect the Earth, its families, communities, and future generations from a catastrophic event. For example, 2014 HQ124, on 23.04.2014, went past 1,250,000 km from Earth, and in 2015, Asteroid TB145, went past at 490,000 km only 21 days after its discovery.
About Asteroid Day:
Asteroid Day was co-founded by Stephen Hawking, filmmaker Grigorij Richters, B612 Foundation President, Danica Remy, Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Brian May, Queen Guitarist and Astrophysicist.
Over 200 astronauts, scientists, technologists and artists, including Richard Dawkins, Bill Nye, Peter Gabriel, Jim Lovell, Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, Alexei Leonov, Bill Anders, Kip Thorne, Lord Martin Rees, Chris Hadfield, Rusty Schweickart and Brian Cox co-signed the Asteroid Day Declaration.
Asteroid Day was officially launched on December 3, 2014.
On Asteroid Day 2017, minor planet 248750 was officially named "Asteroid-Day" by the International Astronomical Union.
Although more than 1,000,000 Asteroids have the potential to strike the Earth, only about one percent have been discovered so far.
There is a pressing need for increasing the asteroid discovery rate to 100,000 (or 100x) per year within the next 10 years.
The Objectives of "Asteroid Day":
"Asteroid Day" aims to create public awareness of the Earth’s vulnerability and the realization that asteroids hit Earth all the time.
Asteroid Day is a vehicle to garner public support to increase our knowledge of when asteroids might strike and how the World can protect ourselves.
The main three goals are:
- Employ available technology to detect and track near-earth asteroids that threaten human populations via governments and private and philanthropic organizations.
- A rapid hundred-fold acceleration of the discovery and tracking of near-earth asteroids to 100,000 per year within the next ten years.
- Global adoption of Asteroid Day, heightening awareness of the asteroid hazard and our efforts to prevent impacts, on June 30 – With the United Nations recognition, this action item has been achieved.
The Stamp:
The Stamp of 0.80 Euro issued by Luxembourg Postes (Luxembourg Post), shows stereotypic images of Asteroid Ryugu.
Brian May, astrophysicist, co-founder of Asteroid Day and the lead guitarist of the British rock band, Queen and colleague Claudia Manzoni teamed up to create incredible stereotypic images of asteroid "Ryugu" using images captured from JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission.
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JAXA employee Yoshiro Yamada then took these images and created the red and blue image featured on the postcard and stamp so that people can view via red-blue stereoscopic glasses.
Stereoscopic imagery is providing scientists new insights into the true composition and shape of asteroids, forever changing our perception of them.
5) City of Bruges (or Brugge), Belgium: 20 Years as UNENCO World Heritage Site: A 20 Euro Silver Proof Coin issued by the Royakl Dutch Mint under licencing of the Royal Belgian Mint, on behalf of the National Bank of Belgium: Coin issue date: 26.02.2020
6) 100 Years of Nature & Environment Protection, Luxembourg: Commemorating the Centenary Anniversary of the "Letzebuerger Natur a Vulleschutsliga a.s.b.l. (Luxembourg Nature and Bird Protection Society):A 0.80 Euro Stamp issued by Luxembourg Postes (Post): Date of stamp issue: 10.03.2020
7) Celebrating 25 Years of listing on UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Luxembourg: A Commemorative Stamp of 0.80 Euro issued by Luxembourg Postes (Post): Stamp issue date: 10.03.2020
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10) First Atlases, Netherlands: Commemorating 450 Years of the first Atlas (1570-2020) & others: A Stamp Sheet of six stamps depicting the Atlases which were compiled in the Netherlands in the 16th & 17th Centuries AD: Stamp Set issued by POstNL: Date of Stamp Set issue: 23.03.2020
12) 75th Anniversary of the United Nations Organisation (UNO), The Netherlands: A Coin-card set of three denominations of 0.50 Euros, 0.20 Euros and 0.05 Euros minted by the Royal Dutch Mint to celebrate the milestone: Year of Coin-card issue: 2020
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This is my second post on the dangers which Asteroids and meteors pose to planet Earth, Satyajit. Hopefully people will become aware of it and expect more action from Governments, who have space programmes.
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