The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time,” ~ Brian May.

Asteroid Day and the 100X Declaration are ways for the public to contribute to an 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 we 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 organisations.

-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.