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Is the answer just that Earth receives MANY such impulses
continuously, one right after the other, and each impulse is
*instantaneously perpendicular to the displacement (and
velocity) vector at that same instant*? And it's the
*tangential* speed that determines the orbital kinetic
energy, and this component isn't changed.