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Assuming Mars and the comet are perfectly round and have the same density, this comet will change the speed of Mars by about 0.004 feet per year, or about a qua
by 30thElement 14y ago
Assuming Mars and the comet are perfectly round and have the same density, this comet will change the speed of Mars by about 0.004 feet per year, or about a quadrillionth of it's current speed. A body large enough and fast enough to destabilize a planets orbit (in the short term) would have a pretty good chance of breaking the planet into pieces.