Good morning! 
It is Wednesday, 30 June 2021
(W26 | D181 | 184 rem)
Today is: 
International Asteroid Day 
Asteroid Day (also known as International Asteroid Day) is an annual global event which is held on the anniversary of the Siberian Tunguska event, which is considered by some to be the most harmful known asteroid-related event on Earth in recent history.
The United Nations has proclaimed it be observed globally on 30 June every year in its resolution. Asteroid Day aims to raise awareness about asteroids and what can be done to protect the Earth, its families, communities, and future generations from a catastrophic event. For example, 2014 HQ124, discovered on April 23, 2014, went past at 1,250,000 km from Earth just 46 days later. Asteroid 2015 TB145, went past at 490,000 km only 21 days after its discovery.
Asteroid Day was co-founded by Stephen Hawking, filmmaker Grigorij Richters, B612 Foundation President, Danica Remy, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, and astrophysicist (and Queen guitarist) Brian May. Over 200 astronauts, scientists, technologists and artists, including Richard Dawkins, Bill Nye, Peter Gabriel, Jim Lovell, and Michael Collins co-signed the Asteroid Day Declaration when it was officially launched on December 3, 2014.
In February 2014, Brian May began working with Grigorij Richters, director of the film 51 Degrees North, the story of a fictional asteroid impact on London and the human condition resulting from such an event. May composed the music for the film. After screening the film at the 2014 Starmus Festival, Remy, Schweickart, Richters and May co-founded Asteroid.
The workgroup of Asteroid Day created a declaration known as the “100X Declaration”, which appeals to all scientists and technologists who support the idea of saving the earth from asteroids. Today, the 100X Declaration has been signed by more than 22,000 private citizens, including those who are not necessarily specialists.
Although more than 1,000,000 asteroids have the potential to impact Earth, we have discovered only about 1% of them. The 100X Declaration calls for increasing the asteroid discovery rate to 100,000 (or 100x) per year within the next 10 years. “The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time,” remarked Brian May. “Asteroid Day and the 100X Declaration are ways for the public to contribute to an awareness of the Earth’s vulnerability and the realization that asteroids hit Earth all the time.” Asteroid Day is a vehicle to garner public support to increase our knowledge of when asteroids might strike and how we can protect ourselves.”
The main three goals are:
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Employ available technology to detect and track near-earth asteroids that threaten human populations via governments and private and philanthropic organisations.
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A rapid 100-fold acceleration of the discovery and tracking of near-earth asteroids to 100,000 per year within the next ten years.
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Global adoption of Asteroid Day, heightening awareness of the asteroid hazard and our efforts to prevent impacts.
In February 2016, Romanian astronaut Dumitru Prunariu and the Association of Space Explorers submitted a proposal to the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations seeking official UN recognition for Asteroid Day, which was accepted. In its resolution the United Nations declares “30 June International Asteroid Day to observe each year, at the international level, the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russian Federation, on 30 June 1908 and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard.”
Keep an eye on the sky as you go about your Wednesday, My Dudes! Maybe use the tools in Idle Observatory to help find the next Near Earth Asteroid! 
Know More:
The complete 51 Degrees North movie was uploaded to the Asteroid Day YouTube channel a month ago, but as an Unlisted Video. But, thanks to my sleuthing skills, I’ve found it and, with just 50 views of it so far, you can be one of the first to see it online if you act now:
Asteroid Day Site
Asteroid Day on Twitch