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Does planet earth weight?

Does the planet earth weight always stay the same without any asteroid meteor meteorite or ANYTHING does NOT fall on our planet from space???

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  • rowlfe
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Anywhere from 3 to 8 tons of space debris falls on the earth every day, but most is too small to see as a fire trail in the sky. The earth is gaining MASS. The earth is in a state of weightlessness, free-fall, in orbit about the sun. The sun center is the equivalent of "down" for the solar system, just as the earth center is "down" for you and me on the earth's surface. In the same sense, the sun is losing MASS. The sun is a nuclear fusion reactor. It takes 100 ounces of hydrogen and fuses it into 96 ounces of helium. The missing 4 ounces of matter were converted using Einstein's E=MC^2 into energy and radiation given off by the sun in all directions. Some of which falls on the sunlit portion of the earth to keep us warm. The surface area of a sphere with a radius of 93,000,000 miles is 1.09x10^17 square miles. The earth has an exposed surface of only 50,265,472 square miles. Which means roughly 4.6x10^-8% (0.000000046%) of the total energy given off by the sun falls on the earth.

  • 7 years ago

    Technically speaking, no the Earth doesn't weigh anything (weight is a unit of force of gravity), but it does have an enormous amount of mass. We pick up a certain amount of mass all the time from meteors etc., though we're also losing a little from lighter gases (esp. H & He) escaping. It's a net gain, but still it's insignificant compared to the planet's existing mass.

  • Tom S
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    There are tons worth of meteoric debris which falls to Earth each day. So, yes the Earth's MASS is increasing slowly, but since it is in a stable orbit, it is weightless.

  • 7 years ago

    Earth's mass increases up to an estimated 10 tons per day, due to meteorites falling into our atmosphere. When you consider Earth's existing mass (many trillions of tons), the additional mass is negligible.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Yes, every body want to preserve its state, unless acted upon by an external force, in this case an asteroid. But you must have a place to sit your weighing scale on: a place/body where the earth must fall on to.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    The Earth gains about 40,000 tonnes of space debris per year. But loses bit 96,000 tonnes of hydrogen and helium to space per year. We're on a diet.

    Source(s): [n] = 10ⁿ
  • 7 years ago

    Any occasional additions are soo small to notice.

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