Of course, supposing that is actually how the planets move makes no sense whatever. But we do not notice the habits of mind that prompt these illusions, as in general we do not commonly notice either our physical or mental habits. So we see no such cases. But a person can have habits that conflict with conscious beliefs. In fact, we all do.
Every golfer knows that it is important to keep one's eye on the ball.
And all golfers, even the very best, need to have someone else notice when they take their eye off the ball, for although they know they should not do that, and want very much not to, they sometimes do, and sometimes without being aware they have done it. Similarly, I would argue, and the 400 year record argues, a person who knows very well that a heliocentric planet cannot collide with the sun may nevertheless fail to notice a logically absurd mental rotation that prompts just that nonsensical intuition. And even after the intuition of a direct collision is dispelled by its transparent logical absurdity, a person is still left with the intuition that in a world of solid spheres, the orbits would collide even though the bodies cannot. But the logic needed to show this is no longer the 1-step argument of paragraph 2. As the target article reports, it becomes easy to dispel the illusion of a collision of orbits only with the help of the moving model presented in the target article, which turns the required correct mental rotation into a physical rotation.