Does the earth have more gravity then the sun?

Answer 1

The Sun and Earth exert equal but opposite forces on each other, obeying Newton's third law. However, if you're referring to another object being pulled by just the Sun or just the Earth, then it depends on the distance from them. If the distance in both situations are equal then the Sun pulls with a greater force due to having a larger mass.

Answer 2

The sun's gravitational force on the Earth is approximately 177 times greater than that of the moon's. To compare the relative gravitational forces of objects on the Earth, you only need to be be concerned about those factors that are different. In this case the masses and the distances between them. The sun's mass is 1.99*10^30 kg and its distance from the Earth is 1.50*10^11 m. The moon's mass is 7.36*10^22 kg and its distance from the Earth is 3.84*10^8 m. Force (sun) ~ (1.99*10^30)/(1.50*10^11)^2 = 8.84*10^7 Force (moon) ~ (7.36*10^22)/(3.84*10^8)^2 = 4.99*10^5 884/4.99 = 177

Answer 3

Yes, much, much more. Since the Sun has 330,000 times the mass of the Earth, its gravitational pull (at the same distance) is also 330,000 times as strong.

At the Sun's surface, gravity is 28 times as strong as that of Earth - you would weigh 28 times as much as on Earth.

Answer 4

Granted, the premises of this question depends on where you are relative to the earth and sun, but if you were placed in the middle of the two, the sun would have a much larger pull (after all, the suns mass is roughly 333,000 times greater than the Earth's).

Answer 5

There is a stronger attraction between Earth and the sun than there is between Mars and the sun because Earth is closer to the sun. The actual force of the attraction is also greater because Earth has more mass than Mars.

Answer 6

The answer to this question is: No, the earth does not have more gravity than the sun. This can be shown in a pretty straight forward way.

The more mass an object has, the greater its gravity. Therefore, the sun (being much larger than the earth) has a much greater gravitational pull.

That is why the earth orbits the sun, and not vice-versa. The motion of earth is what keeps it from being pulled into the sun by all that gravity.

But, you may mean something more like "would I feel more gravity standing on the surface of the earth, or standing on the surface of the sun," by which you mean on which would you be heavier.

But the answer is still the sun. And you probably wouldn't want to be standing on the surface of the sun....

Answer 7

Greater than Earth (practically all)

Gravity is a function of mass, and for main-sequence stars this correlates with their size. However, it is also a function (inverse) of distance, so it would depend on how far you were from any given star. But practically ALL stars would have to have a greater mass (therefore gravity) than our planet.

Greater than Earth's sun (about 8.5%)

We can estimate the percentage of known, visible stars that are smaller or larger than the Sun: about 8.5% are of a larger class than our Sun (a G-type main sequence star), about 3.5 % are about the same size, and about 88% are smaller (K and M stars). Neutron stars are the core remnants of large stars that have gone supernova, and have a greater density (and therefore a greater surface gravity) than any other type of star.

The number of higher-gravity stars is impossible to accurately estimate. But since there are likely billions of galaxies, each with from hundreds of millions to hundreds of billions of stars, the number of stars larger than our Sun would have to be extraordinarily large.