¶ Stardust (1)
Index Entry
Stardust:
"Recent estimates of geo- and astrophysicists
Show that many tons of stardust
Arrive daily and remain on Earth.
Some estimates go as high
As one hundred thousand tons daily–
Probably acquired during Earth’s orbital passaging
Through the rubble of comet tails.
By virtue of such stardust
And asteroid fall-ins,
Earth is actually increasing its weight.
But so are the Moon and other planets,
Wherefore gravitational imbalance
Of the planets is avoided.
All the stars give off energies
And much of the radiation of the stars
Other than the Sun
Impinge on our Earth.
This cosmic radiation seems to impinge
In the same disorderly manner
As does the stardust."
¶ Citations
- BRAIN & iIND, pp.105-106 1ay '72
