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Q&A Can the Sun lose enough mass that Saturn's current velocity becomes escape velocity?

A naive first calculation The formulas for orbital velocity and escape velocity are $v_{o} = \sqrt{\frac{G M}{r}}, v_{e} = \sqrt{\frac{2 G M}{r}}$ I get $v_{o} = 9.6 km/s$ for Saturn. For this to e...

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