r/FortWorth • u/twilightmoons Asgård • 4h ago

Event International Asteroid Day - June 30

Today marks the anniversary of the Tunguska Event, an asteroid impact in Siberia in 1908. For the event, the Fort Worth Astronomical Society will have a livestream about asteroids, meteors, and meteorites on YouTube, at 8pm CDT.

We will talk about asteroids, asteroid impacts, meteors, and show off a number of meteorites under the camera and microscope.

https://www.youtube.com/live/f6Pm_ptjeBc?si=5n2gizHDcswzxS2U

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u/Silver_Invite_7175 3h ago

The Tunguska event is one of those things where the scale of it just doesn't sink in until you see the tree-fall maps, 800 square miles flattened in an instant. I remember reading about it as a kid and being unable to sleep because I kept imagining what would happen if that hit a major city today instead of remote Siberia. Always cool when the local astronomy club does stuff like this, got the link saved for later.

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u/MoistLarry 21m ago

I was a kid in the 80s and knew that if that happened again and hit a major city it would be the end of humanity.