(Stolen, adapted, and condensed from various sources)
Cosmic dust and meteorites fall to earth every year to the tune of 30 to 100 tonnes1 a year. Going with the high estimate, 100 tonnes per year, (roughly 1.7 E-20 % of the earth’s mass), and assuming it’s all silicate so we get the largest volume (a lot of it is much denser), that’s a total volume of 25 cubic meters a year spread worldwide. Spread over a surface area of roughly 1.25E16 square meters, that’s a thickness of 2.00E-15 meters, or roughly the radius of a proton every year. In 10,000 years the earth’s radius would increase by about the diameter of an atom.
Could this be why CACAs2 think Gaia needs to go on a low carb diet?
1A metric ton, rendered as “tonne,” is 204.6 pounds more than a US/Imperial ton (2,000 pounds), since it is 1,000 kilograms, and a kilo is ~2.2046 pounds.
2Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Alarmism