World Asteroid Day (celebrated on June 30) is a global awareness movement where people from all walks of life and all around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet. Although asteroids would seem like mere rocks floating in space, they are actually objects of great importance for astronomers, geologists, planetary scientists, among others.
On the evolutionary field, they are pristine objects from the dawn of the solar system, building blocks of planets, moons and comets that never came to be. They maintain their original chemical composition that speaks to us about how our solar neighbourhood was like 4.5 billion years ago.
Jubel D’Cruz,
Mumbai, India
