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Crowd-Sourcing Meteors: New NASA App Tracks 'Shooting Stars'

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Uploaded by on Dec 20, 2011

NASA is looking to skywatchers for help studying incoming objects. While giving users information about meteor showers, the Apple app can send info back to NASA about the brightness and location of shooting stars.

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  • 40 tonnes a day? So, if we assume that amount has been roughly stable since the formation of the Earth and that none of it escapes... that means the Earth is over 60 trillion tonnes heavier now than when it formed?

  • Can't afford an iphone... Sorry!

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