Asteroid Day?

Did you know that tomorrow is Asteroid Day?  Nor did I, but you can learn more about it by visiting Asteroidday.org, which notes it is "A global awareness movement to protect Earth from asteroid impacts."  You might as well call it World Scare Day as you watch the video on the website, with Queen playing in the background as the world is obliterated. 

In support of this special day, you can go to Change.org where you learn:

There are a million asteroids in our solar system that have the potential to strike Earth and destroy a city, yet we have discovered less than 10,000 — just one percent — of them. We have the technology to change that situation.

If that concerns you, then you can sign a petition asking for the following:

1. Employ available technology to detect and track Near-Earth Asteroids that threaten human populations via governments and private and philanthropic organisations.
2. A rapid hundred-fold (100X) acceleration of the discovery and tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids to 100,000 per year within the next ten years.
3. Global adoption of Asteroid Day, heightening awareness of the asteroid hazard and our efforts to prevent impacts, on June 30 annually.

The list of signatories is pretty impressive, though I did not see any U.S. congressmen or senators who might be in the best position to push for some funding.  Fortunately, the US is already putting a fair amount of resources into the search for dangerous asteroids, so maybe some other organizations will set up to help out.