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To: Nateman
Deimos’s escape velocity is only 5.8 m/s.

You could throw rocks from Deimos have them fall on Mars. Hint: throw them in the direction Deimos came from.

11 posted on 09/07/2024 2:53:47 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: marktwain
You could throw rocks from Deimos have them fall on Mars. Hint: throw them in the direction Deimos came from.

Nope, would never work.

Or do you think that people on the I.S.S. could de-orbit simply by shoving off from the space station?

Throwing a rock as hard as you can from Deimos - in the retrograde direction - would merely place the rock into a slightly lower orbit (one with one apsis touching Deimos' orbit, and with the other apsis maybe 1 km lower).

HINT: It would take about as much energy to de-orbit from Deimos and impact on the surface of Mars as it would take to blast off from the surface of Mars and reach Deimos.

Regards,

21 posted on 09/08/2024 2:16:03 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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