TEDtoks

I’m not a physicist by any means, but I would hypothesize that the slowest way would be to somehow get the object into a slowly decaying, nearly-geostationary orbit around Earth, closer than the Lagrange point between Earth and the Moon. Eventually its orbit will decay enough that it will just fall into our atmosphere somewhat “straight down”, making it a matter of calculating the object’s terminal velocity.

I’ll probably be wrong about many things here, but it’ll be interesting to learn when someone corrects me.