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beAbU
377 days ago
You reach up and pull jupiter down while pulling yourself up?
Not an orbital mechanicist though.
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peeters
377 days ago
Pulling an object "down" (ie towards the gravitational focus) doesn't lower the energy of its orbit, it just changes the eccentricity. To lower its orbit you have to slow it down.
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