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There is also kinetic energy when objects in space crash into the earth. RIP ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Hypothetically those would average to O as they strike randomly though right?
This guy doesn't have numbers on their keyboard.
Well it's still incoming energy, and it's a scalar quantity. One could argue that average velocity/momentum incoming from the strikes might be zero, but I don't think that's the case either
Yeah, AFAIK the big meteor showers all come from the "oncoming" direction as Earth orbits the sun. That actually might average out to zero linear momentum, depending on how they're spaced, but it definitely is reducing the Earth's angular momentum around the sun.
Oh yeah that's what I was thinking of, so it would still add heat to our system ok