On 06/04/2011 10:55 AM, Litus Arare wrote:
If I were launched into space and was able to achieve an independent orbit
far away from the earth's gravitational field, and released some grains of
sand, would the solar wind blow them away?

No, not enough surface area. More likely that the grains of sand would
actually start coming together under their own mutual self-gravitation.
In fact that's how the Solar System first formed, dust and gas fell
together.

Yousuf Khan