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To: Swordmaker

Accretion. The Earth and all bodies with sufficent mass gain more, and as they gain, their mass increases, causing more accretion. The figure I’ve seen most is 0.1%/year(dust, meteors, and water), but even at a magnitude less(.01%), it adds up.


80 posted on 03/21/2008 5:48:31 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: PeaceBeWithYou
Accretion. The Earth and all bodies with sufficent mass gain more, and as they gain, their mass increases, causing more accretion. The figure I’ve seen most is 0.1%/year(dust, meteors, and water), but even at a magnitude less(.01%), it adds up.

At a 0.1% per year increase, you could have a 2,100% gain in only 10,000 years, if I did my math right. Accretion would explain an increase in gravity.

299 posted on 05/28/2008 3:02:12 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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