International Asteroid Day 2024. International asteroid day, 30 june. Later in 2016, the united nations general assembly passed a resolution to celebrate june 30 as international asteroid day.

On september 4, 2024, astronomers detected a small asteroid, 2024 rw1, just hours before its predicted atmospheric entry over the philippines. On 6 december 2016 the united nations general assembly (unga) proclaimed in resolution a/71/492 that international asteroid day.