Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su...
by Symmetry on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:25AM
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Well, we'd need to apply 40 km/s of delta-v. The moon weighs 1/80th as much as the Earth. By the rocket equation, we'd have to throw the material of the Moon away from Earth at 3219 km/s or 1/100 of the speed of light in order to accelerate Earth enough.
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