June 30 is Asteroid Day to raise awareness of opportunities & risks posed by asteroids, their role in the formation of our solar system, their impact in space resources & importance of protecting Earth from impact. π§ͺπ‘π’π June 30, 1908 an approximately 12-megaton explosion that occurred near the π§΅1/n
Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, likely due to a meteor air burst due to the explosion of a 50-60 m stony asteroid - the Tunguska event. Luckily this is a sparsely populated area of Siberian taiga, but itβs estimated that 80 million trees were π§΅2/n
flattened.
This is my wee little asteroid linocut (on paper 4β x 4β with 2β x 2β printed area).
Fun fact: Asteroid Day was co-founded by astrophysicist/rock musician Dr Brian May of Queen
π§΅3/3
