The department of astronomy and space, in coordination with Ibn Sina unit for e-learning and the continuing education unit at the college of science, has organized an online seminar in collaboration with the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research in the Arab Republic of Egypt, entitled the “World Asteroid Day” with the participation of a number of students, professors, Iraqi, Egyptian and other astronomers and physicists.
The lectures were delivered by Dr. Sumaya Saad of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, Assist. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Abdul Razzaq, Assist. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kamel and Dr. Anas Salman who tried to introduce this annual global event on the anniversary of the Tongoska explosion in Siberia, which took place on June 30, 1908, that is considered as one of the most well-known asteroid-related events in recent history towards increasing the need for studying these astrological bodies and their role in knowing the history of the solar system through the basic composition of asteroids. They also aimed to highlight the basics of space exploration, scientific information about stars, planets, sun and moon phases in terms of their locations and movements, and the most prominent asteroids whose fall on our planet causing radical changes in the environment throughout its long history, and ways of studying them through the use of modern technologies available to detect and track near-earth asteroids that threaten human beings in order to raise the awareness of the threat of asteroids on life.
