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nzl_river97 t1_ixqrsdj wrote

Reply to comment by froggison in Mars may be slowly ripping its largest moon apart by peterabbit456

Most efficient way is to push it backwards to slow it down and reduce the orbit. Pushing it directly to Mars will just make the orbit more eccentric.

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seehp t1_ixqz61f wrote

Good plan. I like that. Tom Cruise will probably want to be there to film an action film sequence.

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Khavak t1_ixs9095 wrote

or accelerate it into an eccentric orbit and then deaccelerate it at apoapsis

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Lollister t1_ixseqqj wrote

Sooo you play ksp or real astrophysican ?

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nzl_river97 t1_ixslb2i wrote

I did a few papers on astrophysics in uni, but also a lot of ksp haha

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