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Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign spearheaded by the Asteroid Foundation in Luxembourg.
The day is observed on the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska event, when a space rock about half the size of a football field broke up in the air over a remote forest in Siberia.
In 2013, a 20-meter (66-foot) space rock struck Earth near the Chelyabinsk city in Russia, injuring about 1,500 people.
Asteroid Day comes at the heels of two asteroids that just brushed past Earth.
The LO-CAMS project uses off-the-shelf security cameras to snap pictures of the night sky in search of meteors.
From the HD-resolution photographs these cameras capture, the team can predict the paths of pea-size meteors and later search for pieces that may have survived.
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