Asteroid Day 2022: The Big Impact Event | What is Asteroid Day?

Flagstaff’s 2022 “Big Impact Event,” was the first of its kind, representing a collaborative effort between two historic astronomical sites: Meteor Crater, the best-preserved meteorite impact crater in the world, and Lowell Observatory, a 128-year-old astronomical observatory that studies near-earth asteroids and has discovered roughly 30,000 asteroids in our solar system. In this video, experts from Lowell Observatory and Meteor Crater discuss what Asteroid Day is, what makes it so important, and how awareness can help us protect our planet from asteroids.