The lawyers are still trying to undo the damage, but this is Italy after all, which is sort of like another planet, and I will likely be bones and dust before anything is resolved.

From there, new dust grains will float out into the cosmos, where they may collect into very small rocks, then asteroids, then planets.

Using various detectors and research methods, astronomers have determined that the stuff we see in space - stars, gas, and dust - amounts to less than 5 percent of the universe.