# @unoosa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DDzhvtYtPeq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35584198-unoosa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-12-20T15:27:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UNOOSA (@unoosa) — https://gondola.cc/unoosa

## Caption

🌍 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: https://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 (https://lnkd.in/dqHHYaCm) with Kelly Fast of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who is the Coordinating Officer for the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), and Detlef Koschny, Professor at the Technical University of Munich, and Chair of Space Mission Planning Advisory Group on behalf of the European Space Agency - ESA, to find out more on why international cooperation on planetary defence and protection is critical.

👀 see the following links for information on the functions of, and #UNOOSA’s Secretariat roles to, SMPAG and IAWN:

SMPAG - https://lnkd.in/dScCWdiW 
IAWN - https://lnkd.in/dVf4JUAM 

#AsteroidWarning #Asteroid #PlanetaryDefence

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asteroidwarning, planetarydefence, unoosatop10, asteroid, unoosa

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