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==== - No Single Number: You will sometimes see claims that “electrostatic levitation transports X times more dust than micrometeoroid deposition.” In reality, the consensus of current data is that micrometeoroid bombardment likely contributes (and redistributes) at least as much dust—and likely more in terms of overall mass flux—than electrostatic levitation does, on a global scale. ====
* Active Research Area: Scientists are still piecing together the relative importance of each process. Some localized regions might see more noticeable electrostatic dust motion; elsewhere, micrometeoroid impacts may dominate.

So, strictly speaking, we do not have a solid, universally agreed-upon factor (such as “100 times more”) for electrostatic lofting versus fresh dust accretion from micrometeoroids. Early theoretical work sometimes pointed to electrostatic transport being larger, but modern in-situ measurements (e.g. from LADEE) suggest that micrometeoroid-driven dust is at least as important, if not more so, in terms of total dust mass.