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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Huh. I would have thought that once they break orbit that the sun's gravity well would do the heavy ~~lifting~~ pulling.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Breaking orbit" still leaves you in almost the same orbit around the sun as the earth. You need to slow down a lot to bring the periapsis of the orbit within the suns surface.

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