Ele Willoughby, PhD

June 30 is Asteroid Day to raise awareness of opportunities and risks posed by asteroids, their role in the formation of our solar system, their impact in space resources and importance of protecting Earth from impact. June 30, 1908 an approximately 12-megaton explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, likely due to a meteor 🧵1/2

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Jun 30, 2024 at 12:22pmWeb
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air burst due to the explosion of a 50 to 60 m stony asteroid - the Tunguska event. Luckily this is a sparsely populated area of Siberian taiga, but it’s estimated that 80 million trees were flattened.

This is my wee little asteroid linocut (on paper 4” x 4” with 2” x 2” printed area).

Fun fact: Asteroid Day was co-founded by astrophysicist/rock musician Dr Brian May of Queen.

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