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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What worries me is that they’re stealing a little bit of Jupiter’s momentum every time. If they’re not careful it’ll fall towards the sun and we’ll have a Jupiter landing on our heads.

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  • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s alright, we send someone out every few years to give it a bit of a wind up, like a grandfather clock.

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah ok. I remember we also did this with the Moon

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• Zuriz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Image

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  sg1 taught us that.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    or a black hole.

    Not a physicist but i don’t think a black hole would work…

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    • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why wouldn’t it? A gravity well is a gravity well. As long as you remain outside the event horizon it should work in the same way.

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      • sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        As the other commenter has stated, it’s not about the gravity - because you have to ultimately counter that gravity to escape. But it is about the kinetic energy of the planet as it orbits.

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