Fun fact:
To toss something into the sun, it would take a speed of about 24 km/s.

Or, if you had a rocket with much more time and limited fuel, you could raise your apoapsis very high above the sun and then fire your rocket retrograde at the apoapsis, and it'd fall right in.

Please dispose of the things you think need to burn in the fires of stars efficiently.
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@ziphi It takes less Δv to fling something into deep space than it does to drop it into the sun.
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