LONDON (AP) – Queen guitarist Brian May is throwing his support behind an initiative for a hundred-fold increase in the detection and monitoring of asteroids.

May has a Ph.D. in astrophysics.

May has joined a consortium of scientists calling for better monitoring of asteroids, especially those that may threaten humans, and for global adoption of Asteroid Day on June 30 to draw attention to potential asteroid hazards.

May says the more we learn about asteroids, the more we realize the human race has been living on borrowed time.

He says no one knows when the next big one will hit, and it takes just one.

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