Solar Mass Balance
While we know our sun loses mass via radiant light, heat and solar wind,
is not the sun also gaining mass from objects (such as asteroids, meteorites)
and energy (such as radiant light, heat, or other cosmic analogous particles from
other solar systems) every second? Is there a way to measure this?
At the moment, we cannot measure these things in other solar systems as well as we
can with our own. But spacecraft in the future might enable us to do better!
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Update: June 2012