I came across the following from The Handy Weather Answer Book by Walter A. Lyons and thought I would share it with you. Like me it is probably something you never gave much thought about.
How much "space dust" reaches the surface of Earth? A lot more than you might think. The Earth has been slowly gaining weight: by some estimates over six tons of microscopic meteoric dust and debris sinter down into the lower atmosphere every day.
Now, didn't that make your day and give you something more to ponder during these uncertain times?
Amazing!! Who knew!?! and then there is the space junk, we humans are creating in space, which will fall back to earth at some point as well.
ReplyDeleteHa! And at least a ton of it is landing in our house!!
ReplyDeleteI s'pose that someday we'll have special high-velocity vacuums for Space Dust. In the meantime, I'm more concerned about all the Earth Dust in my immediate surroundings and habitat.
ReplyDeleteI read that before somewhere. You can take a magnet up to your roof and find iron micro flakes that are supposedly from meteorites. I tried it and found a lot when I live in Minnesota.
ReplyDeleteI thought the dust on my table was enough to organic garden!!!
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