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Bryce F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 26 4:28 pm)
In fact the earth does recoil (as far as I know), but it's just a really small recoil compared to the huge mass of the earth. It's like stepping out of a boat. If you're in little a rubber boat and you want to jump of the boat and onto the shore the boat moves away from the shore. If you would do the same on a large cruiseship you don't even notice any movement, because you would need much more energy to make the cruiseship move the same amount as the tiny rubber boat. "Throwing orbits out of whack = bad" I read something about that once. Some scientists calculated once that a space-probe that was making a slingshot maneuvre around the earth would cause the earth to slow down a little. A lower speed would pull the earths orbit a little bit more towards the sun. The diference was only a few meters after a very large number of years (I forgot how many excactly, but I think it was in the thousands of years). Some of the kinetic energy of the earth is tranfered to the probe during the slingshot maneuvre. That's what's causing the probe to accelerate. The earht's orbit right now is making the earth move away from the sun slowly. And the moon is moving away from the earth too.
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