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Old February 16th 17, 06:39 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default June 30th is Asteroid Day!

On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 7:09:34 AM UTC-7, Chris L Peterson wrote:

(Seriously though, it is not entirely outside our power to take action
to prevent such a strike, so there may well be value in expanding
awareness of the possibility.)


I admit that, but because the prospect of an asteroid impact is so remote, and the
general public has other priorities... it seems to me that an "Asteroid Day" to
raise general awareness is not a direction likely to yield much in the way of
useful results.

John Savard