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Re:A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the ne... by EdSchouten on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:10AM (#27577245)
It's apparently pretty hard to hit the Sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvR1fRTW8g

(Though that video mostly talks about small objects like rockets. Maybe it's a different story for dwarf planets?)

That said... Keep in mind that this is about a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun. It's 11 AU out, so twice as far from the Sun as Jupiter is.

Re:A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the ne... by jhgb on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:48PM (#27613767)
More importantly the video mostly talks about hitting the Sun from a platform like Earth already closely orbiting the Sun, which is not the same thing as arriving practically from interstellar space. That's much more important than the size of anything.

If you were to make a velocity change to this object in its aphelion to make it hit the Sun, it would be vastly easier (at least per unit of weight) than do the same with a probe launched from Earth.