Is it possible for meteors to become trapped in Earth’s orbit? If so, why isn’t Earth’s upper atmosphere choked with a billion years of accumulated space rocks?

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Is it possible for meteors to become trapped in Earth’s orbit? If so, why isn’t Earth’s upper atmosphere choked with a billion years of accumulated space rocks?

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The atmosphere would create atmospheric drag slowing down objects so that gravity would take over and they fall to Earth, further out there are temporarily captured objects or mini-Moons, but they too don’ last long.

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