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Re:A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the ne... by tradesurplus on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:47PM (#27576122)
Why not tow it into Venus or Mars orbit instead? They could do with the benefits of having a decent sized moon. It would make terraforming and long term habitation more straightforward and likely to succeed as well as providing lots of useful materials feedstock atop the gravity well.
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Re:A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the ne... by herendin2 on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:04AM (#27577479)
If this was remotely possible for us then we could also talk about towing the Earth a little further from the Sun to fix climate change

(It's not possible in any reasonable time)

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