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The impact is not necessarily very slow but even so the exact geometries of the impact area with respect to center of masses etc. would change the trajectories in different ways. Since these would be effectively random, the resulting trajectory changes would also be random: some would continue is near the same stable orbital trajectory, some out into space, and some in a decaying orbit that eventually hits earth.


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