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Originally Posted by lwcamp
If you do this much damage, you will have broken the planet into pieces - probably several large chunks plus multiple smaller bits. However, while you may have smashed it up pretty good, you will not have destroyed it as a planet.
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Well, nobody is going to be living there for a while.
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The reason is because those chunks and bits are still attracted together by their mutual gravity and will quickly coalesce into one large lump of metal and rock once again (granted, it will be molten rock even at the surface).
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Quickly in geological time, or historical time?