{"id":462,"date":"2021-06-30T10:37:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T10:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2021-06-30T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T10:37:49","slug":"international-asteroid-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/international-asteroid-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Asteroid Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is 30 June International Asteroid Day<br>It was on this day in 1908 that the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20160706-in-siberia-in-1908-a-huge-explosion-came-out-of-nowhere\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20160706-in-siberia-in-1908-a-huge-explosion-came-out-of-nowhere\" target=\"_blank\">Tunguska impact <\/a>occured in Siberia, releasing about 185x more energy than Hiroshima atomic bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/FB_IMG_1625039539416.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/FB_IMG_1625039539416.jpg 720w, https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/FB_IMG_1625039539416-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>International Asteroid Day Edcare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">International Asteroid Day aims to raise 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn More:<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space-explorers.org\/outreach\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.space-explorers.org\/outreach\" target=\"_blank\">ABC&#8217;s of Space!<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/iawn.net\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/iawn.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0International Asteroid Warning Network <\/a>(IAWN) and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmos.esa.int\/web\/smpag\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cosmos.esa.int\/web\/smpag\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Space Mission Planning Advisory Group<\/a> (SMPAG) <br>Research: Learn more about Near-Earth objects (NEOs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is 30 June International Asteroid DayIt was on this day in 1908 that the Tunguska impact occured in Siberia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[133,65,3],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edcare-education-care-rehabilitation-organization-observe-all-world-and-international-days","tag-asteroid-day","tag-edcare","tag-international-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}