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Space Collisions, Identical Twins & Steam Boats

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Do Black Hole Dilation Affect Earth's Gravitation?

The earth is picking up about 50,000 tons of debris and meteors every day. But it's losing about 90,000tons of hydrogen and helium every day. So the earth is getting lighter by about 40,000 tons per day. As you lose less mass, the gravity will get less but will it affect the orbit? No. If the earth weighed 1,000 or a millionth of what it did, it could still be in exactly the same orbit.

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