Earth plows through several hundred tons of meteor dust a day. That's like a net flying full speed ahead into an elephant and the elephant says, hey, put the shoving. PN wonders who wants to know this. With earth gathering mass from space material all the time, when will the mass increase to have an effect on Earth's orbit? And what would that effect be?
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer a grab bag of fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on black holes, dark matter, aliens, colonizing planets, Sir Isaac Newton, and a whole lot more!
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Photo Credit: Image Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT).
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