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Shooting Something Into the Sun is HARD (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/videos

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Article if you'd rather read about it.

A common joke is "just launch X into the sun and be done with it". Turns out, that's actually a really difficult thing to do.

From Earth, we would have to accelerate a spacecraft to 33 m/s in the opposite direction of our orbit in order to get it to fall into the sun (without entering an elliptical orbit) For reference, we only need to launch a spacecraft at 11 km/s in the same direction of our orbit to cause the spacecraft to escape our solar system.

This means that it would take less energy to launch a spacecraft to another star than our own sun.

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[–] Donjuanme 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or you just let it be elliptical for a while and that shit will burn up before very long.

You don't need to hit the center of the sun to be incinerated by it.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You occasionally hear of houses being hit by fragments of deorbited space stations or things like that. I'm wondering how much of our trash would survive a shallow reentry.

And also how bad spreading its aerosolized forms across hundreds of miles would be in the long run.