🌍 At Number 7 of the #UNOOSATop10 campaign, we have the decision by the UN General Assembly to officially declare 2029 as the International Year for Asteroid Warning and Planetary Defence, which coincides with the close fly-by of Asteroid Apophis on Friday 13 April 2029! Tabled by Romania 🇷🇴, the resolution marking the International Year was also sponsored by the following countries: 🇦🇱🇦🇲🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇪🇧🇦🇧🇬🇨🇷🇭🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇩🇯🇪🇬🇩🇪🇬🇷🇭🇺🇱🇺🇲🇪🇲🇦🇳🇱🇲🇰🇵🇭🇵🇱🇵🇹🇲🇩🇸🇳🇸🇰🇪🇸🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 For more information on the International Year, see the homepage here: lnkd.in/dsCkfHu4 ☄️More broadly... How often do asteroids hit Earth? 🌍 What’s the risk? 🚗🦖 And can we create a “cosmic car accident” to stop them from wiping us all out like the dinosaurs? 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 🇺🇳 Watch the interview on our Youtube Channel (lnkd.in/dqHHYaCm) with Kelly Fast of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who is the Coordinating Officer for the Internation...