Note that the Earth also gains mass each year due to meteors, micrometeors, and the solar wind, and loses mass in the form of hydrogen and helium which bleed off into space.
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Aside from its unstable position, Halos would have to contend with thousands of meteor and micrometeor impacts which would destabilize or destroy the ring; there is no evidence in the games that the installations project an energy shield to prevent this occurrence.
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Next comes weathering : no wind or rain, of course, but there's thermal stress ( assuming the whale does not always keep the same side to the sun ) and the slow sandblasting of micrometeors . & mdash; Tamfang 05 : 39, 24 November 2006 ( UTC)
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After the Apollo missions, when instruments first detected the barest wisps of gas around the moon, many researchers had concluded that a gentle rain of sunlight, ions from the solar wind, micrometeors or some combination of the three was responsible for kicking up a thin atmosphere from atoms in lunar dust.
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:: : : : If I recall correctly, meteors, micrometeors, and space dust lead to an accretion of about 50, 000 metric tons per year . ( Which is isn't nearly as much as it sounds like once you spread it out across the entire Earth's surface ) . talk ) 22 : 51, 22 August 2011 ( UTC)
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The only known practical solution to this problem is surrounding the crewed parts of the ship with a thick enough shielding such as a thick layer of maintained ice as proposed in " The Songs of Distant Earth ", a science fiction novel by Arthur C . Clarke ( note : in this book the ship's mammoth ice shield is only in front of the ship, preventing micrometeors damaging the ship during its interstellar journey ).
