What happens if you drop a feather in space?
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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A Very Speedy Snack on an Airplane
Ai, the peanuts before your friend tosses me. I'm moving at 500 miles per hour along with the rest of you. At first, we're all zooming around in orbit, including our feather. So compared to us, it's sitting still in space. However, if you leave it there for a while, it will start to interact with the very, very thin atmosphere up there. While earth's gravity pulls the feather into orbit, there are a few particles around, a really thin atmosphere and those particles push against the feather. And it will eventually start the spiral end of the earth ecause it can't maintain its orbit. It will eventually burn up in the atmosphere like
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