Tons of Invisible Asteroid and Comet Dust Falls on Us Every Year
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Imperceptibly small bits of dust from space fall to Earth in a perpetual microscopic meteor shower. (Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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Some 10,000 grand pianos’ worth
of space dust lands on Earth each year, according to a new paper published in Earth & Planetary Science Letters.