• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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        5 months ago

        Sadly, it takes a shit ton of energy to get things to the sun. Everything is moving very quickly around the sun. You need the opposite amount of energy to fall in.

        • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          You only need enough energy to get it down to the orbit of Venus, plus a little bit extra for some gravity assists around Venus and Jupiter. Those will shoot it to the edge of the solar system where a tiny bit of thrust will kill the remaining angular momentum and let it fall back into the sun.
          Oh, and it will take a century.

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          5 months ago

          Speaking as an aerospace engineer, of course. But it’d be a worthy um…expenditure?