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Ep271 - Neil deGrasse Tyson | The Pluto Files

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Pluto's a Lost Memory

This is debris that is in the way as we move in our orbit. You add all those up a couple of hundred tons a day as we orbit the sun, cause we're moving 18 miles per second around thi. That's fast. Ask how much total mass is there that we could sweep up, and compare that to the mass of earth itself. If you do that, it is a mere pittance of our current total mass. So you can declare that we dominate the mass of our zone. Pluto does not. Even if it did happen, th ut then it would sweep up pluto. Anyiht ther outowould be the planet and not pluto. Pluto would

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