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Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium
Which brings me onto: if we blew up a planet, wouldn't it be seriously bad for our orbit? Mightn't it make the planet uninhabitable (this one, not the one we blow up....)?
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A good question. However it would seem that the Sun has about 99% of the mass in the entire Solar System, so the addition or removal of even a Jupiter-sized planet in any non-Earthish orbit is quite unlikely to affect our orbit more than a teeeny-tiny smidgen
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