OT: Here's a happy thought...

[se5a]

if you destroyed a planet... how much of it would end up staying it that orbit?

[Fyron]

se5a said:
if you destroyed a planet... how much of it would end up staying it that orbit?

I'd wager most of it would stay in the same general orbital region. Some pieces would fly out orthogonally and enter highly elliptical orbits, but I'd wager that most of the pieces would not be given divergent enough velocities to do much other than increase or decrease the orbital distance by a small margin.

[Renegade 13]

Fyron said:
I'd wager most of it would stay in the same general orbital region. Some pieces would fly out orthogonally and enter highly elliptical orbits, but I'd wager that most of the pieces would not be given divergent enough velocities to do much other than increase or decrease the orbital distance by a small margin.

Huge amount of anti-matter. The planet was mostly converted to energy when the anti-matter 'bomb' contacted the planet!

[AngleWyrm]

Oh, and quarks.
Quarks would turn the interstellar space foam into black holes, and suck away some of the planet.
And they'de do it by barking.
Barking Quarks.

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I put down my ruler, picked up my TextBook, and recited "Yea, Hallowed Halls, I believe!"