☄️💘Which one of these space rocks is your type? On this International Asteroid Day, swipe through & discover a small fraction of the 1 million+ asteroids that roam the solar system. Whereas most of them will never cross our paths, about 37000 of them, called near earth objects, occasionally cross Earth's orbit. 🌠🦖Small asteroids are harmless, burning up in the atmosphere and lighting up our night skies as shooting stars. Larger asteroids can be dangerous. Most scientists believe a massive asteroid 10-15 kilometres wide caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. On 30 June 1908, a 50-60 meter wide asteroid crashed in Tunguska, Siberia, flattening 80 million trees. 🔭🚨Thanks to optical and radio telescopes, most asteroid collisions with Earth can be predicted ahead of time. The International Asteroid Warning Network (#IAWN) works with #COPUOS and #UNOOSA to detect potential asteroid collisions and flybys and inform member states. 🤏🌍There is currently no big ...