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The Sun cannot 'fall' because it is too massive. The Earth is much smaller (1/100 of the diameter) and it is in an orbit controlled by the Sun's gravity. The Earth's forward speed stops it falling into the Sun, and the gravity only causes the Earth's path to bend continuously towards the Sun.
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Can sun fall into the earth?
No, the sun is too bug to fall into the earth. The sun has used up approximately half of its life. In another 4 billion years or so, the sun will expand to become a red giant. When it does, the earth will be swallowed up by the sun.
What is an example of an object that is in free fall?
The earth. Because it is in orbit around the sun, the earth is technically in free-fall. The moon is in free-fall around the earth for the same reason. A better way to think of it might be this: The sun is pulling on the earth, pulling earth straight into the sun. The earth is moving perpendicular to the direction of that pull at exactly the speed needed to stay about 93 million miles away from the sun. Earth ----------->Pull-----> SUN | | V Direction of travel Because of this, earth will fall in an ellipse around the sun unless some other force acts on earth. Hence, Earth is in free-fall.
Is it possible for earth to fall?
no. gravity causes objects to fall. So unless the sun(earth's source of gravity) moves, then earth will not "drop"
How may years did earth fall in the death star?
None. The only star in the Earth's history is the Sun and the Sun existed before the Earth and will outlive the Earth.
What is caused by the same force that caused object to fall toward the surface of earth?
Sun
Why doesn't the Earth fall into the Sun?
The Earth does not fall into the sun because it is moving fast enough around it. Imagine a weight on the end of a string like a conker, with the weight being the earth, and where you hold the string being the sun. If you swing it around fast enough, the weight spins in circles and does not go near your hand, but if you swing it slowly, the weight will fall in. So because the earth is spinning fast enough around the sun, it does not fall in.
What does the sun do when fall equinox is over?
Nothing. The Earth changes.
How does the sky hold the sun up in the air?
It does not. The sun is far larger and more massive than Earth is. So the better question is not why the sun doesn't fall to Earth, but rather why Earth doesn't fall into the sun. Earth is continuously pulled toward the sun by gravity. However, it is already moving so fast that by the time it would have it the sun, it has missed. In this manner earth moves around the sun in an almost perfectly circular orbit.
What would happen if Earth stops revolving around the sun but sits stationary in one spot?
The Earth would fall into the Sun.
What do you think would happen if the earth stoped moving?
The gravitational pull of the sun would not be balanced by the outward force derived from the Earth's centripetal motion, and the earth would fall into the sun.
What is the word of the question what causes day and night on earth?
the rise and fall of the sun or the turning of the earth.
Why do we have spring?
Earth orbits the Sun in a tilted-over position. Spring and Fall are the two seasons when Earth's tilt is halfway between forward to the Sun and rearward to the Sun.
