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Is It Possible To Move The Earth In A Direction?

According to Newton's 3rd law, when an object moves upward, the earthEarth moves by a very tiny factor in the opposite of the direction of the object. And when the object falls back, the earth moves back to its original position.

This lead me to think about rockets. When they leave the earthEarth, many of them don't come back. So, if we were to launch too many rockets with 1000x more speed from the position from which the earth would move towards the sunSun (just an arbitrary direction); will it then be possible to move the earthEarth into the sun considering that none of the rockets which were launched came back?

Is It Possible To Move The Earth In A Direction

According to Newton's 3rd law, when an object moves upward, the earth moves by a very tiny factor in the opposite of the direction of the object. And when the object falls back, the earth moves back to its original position.

This lead me to think about rockets. When they leave the earth, many of them don't come back. So, if we were to launch too many rockets with 1000x more speed from the position from which the earth would move towards the sun (just an arbitrary direction); will it then be possible to move the earth into the sun considering that none of the rockets which were launched came back?

Is It Possible To Move The Earth In A Direction?

According to Newton's 3rd law, when an object moves upward, the Earth moves by a very tiny factor in the opposite of the direction of the object. And when the object falls back, the earth moves back to its original position.

This lead me to think about rockets. When they leave the Earth, many of them don't come back. So, if we were to launch too many rockets with 1000x more speed from the position from which the earth would move towards the Sun (just an arbitrary direction); will it then be possible to move the Earth into the sun considering that none of the rockets which were launched came back?

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Is It Possible To Move The Earth In A Direction

According to Newton's 3rd law, when an object moves upward, the earth moves by a very tiny factor in the opposite of the direction of the object. And when the object falls back, the earth moves back to its original position.

This lead me to think about rockets. When they leave the earth, many of them don't come back. So, if we were to launch too many rockets with 1000x more speed from the position from which the earth would move towards the sun (just an arbitrary direction); will it then be possible to move the earth into the sun considering that none of the rockets which were launched came back?