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What does "Solar non-orbit" mean?

What would happen, if you managed to make sure all this stuff got escape velocity, is you would wind-up with a bunch of junk (literally) in an orbit around the sun that would inherently pass through Earth's orbit - as long as it doesn't have solar escape velocity, once a thing is moving on pure momentum, it is in orbit and since the orbit fairly closely an ellipse so the object will return. As the article mentions, probably not when the earth return to the point. But if you keep throwing stuff "out there", the chances of a return are naturally going to increase.



i think he just means any old trajectory that doesn't come back...

its not a completely rubbish idea.

if you shoot the right way you could end up cancelling enough orbital velocity to intersect the sun before any return to earth.




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