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redlinezo6 t1_iymr23x wrote

Reply to comment by mfb- in Did the impact from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs change the earth’s orbit? by phoinex711

We just did that with a satellite hitting an asteroid. Of course those masses are much closer in size, but it only changed the asteroids spin slightly, but measurable over days.

And there is totally things that compound, every change in mass or velocity changes it's interaction with all gravitational bodies. Which all act on each other...

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mfb- t1_iymwfwi wrote

They all act on each other but that's a small effect and moving Earth's orbit by 50 meter isn't going to change that. Forces will differ by something like one part in a billion, and a billionth of a small effect is completely negligible (far smaller than 50 meters, in particular).

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