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What is the escape velocity of our Galaxy relative to?
I've been thinking that everything has a relative escape velocity, if it has Mass, seemingly. You can escape orbit around the earth by accelerating enough. You can escape the orbit of the sun by ...
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What happens if you fail to reach escape velocity for the galaxy?
I was listening to Skeptics Guide to the Universe the other day, and Steve Novella mentioned that the escape velocity for the galaxy is 544 km/s.
If an object fails to reach escape velocity on Earth, ...
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