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by pqh 3132 days ago
Would it still be travelling too fast to be captured if it hit the sun directly?
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Is something technically captured by a gravity well if it just happens to hit the object at the center? I assume not.
At the very least, I'd say that... after collision, assuming complete coalescence into the object, they will share identical orbital parameters
It would cease to exist in that case...
No, but that's exceedingly unlikely. Even the sun is a very tiny target.