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From Earth, it is much easier to eject something from the solar system than to get it to fall into the sun by the way. Well, not just Earth but from almost eve
by _Microft 6y ago
From Earth, it is much easier to eject something from the solar system than to get it to fall into the sun by the way.
Well, not just Earth but from almost everywhere in the solar system (assuming being on an almost circular orbit).
- eloff 6y agoYou'd need to fire the rocket to slow down sufficiently to fall into the sun right? Just imagining the solar system as a bowling ball at the center of a trampoline surrounded by fast moving billiard balls. The problem is probably the speed the earth is moving at, plus the speed we had to get the rocket up to, to get it off earth.
- pdonis 6y ago> You'd need to fire the rocket to slow down sufficiently to fall into the sun right? Yes, which is around 30 km/s of delta-v, as compared with only 12 km/s delta-v to boost an object from Earth's orbit (assuming you launch it in the same direction that Earth is traveling) to escape velocity from the solar system.