Comment by kgwgk

Comment by kgwgk 6 months ago

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If you saw a comet coming from the sun, or a meteorite coming from the moon, etc. you would also find that suspicious.

Gravityloss 6 months ago

Comets are in elliptical orbits around the sun so literally half the time they're traveling away from the sun.

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kgwgk 6 months ago

Sometimes they don’t make it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungrazing_comet
https://www.space.com/8478-comet-collision-sun-captured-3.ht...

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- Gravityloss 6 months ago
  
  Yea and those happen when other forces than gravity come into play. When matter starts colliding.
  
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  kgwgk 6 months ago
  
  Every object has been subject to forces other gravity at some point.
  And the point is that sometimes comets do indeed fall into the Sun. If you object to people calling that a comet that’s fine - we can use whatever name you want.
  
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