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Does the suns gravity cause asteroids to move?
The sun's gravity doesn't necessarily cause the asteroids to move, however it does cause the asteroids to move the way that they do move. For example, let's take away the sun. Any asteroids around the sun would continue to move at the same rate that is was moving prior to the sun being taken away. However, instead of following an elliptical orbit around the sun, the asteroid would move in a straight line instead. So the asteroids can still move without the sun. However, it is the sun that makes the asteroids orbit around the sun. The orbit's tendency to want to move away in a straight line counteracts the gravity created by the sun. The results of these two forces is what causes the asteroids elliptical orbit.
How do planets stay in their orbits yet not get sucked in to the Sun?
Gravity and inertia both contribute to their orbits. Inertia tends to move a planet away from the Sun, while the Sun's gravity tries to pull the planet closer. Without one of them, a planet would either float away from the Sun (inertia only) or burn up from the Sun (gravity only).
Why planets do not move away through their orbit?
GRAVITY... gravity means that objects are "attracted" to other objects, and the larger the object, the more GRAVITY will "attract" the object. The sun's gravity is too large for the planets to overcome.
What caues planets to revolve around the sun?
The sun has a large mass of gravity. And the sun uses that gravity to keep us from flying away. Even though we try to, the sun keeps us in balance. All the movement on the planets move the planets farther away if we didn't have the suns gravity. And because there is no friction in space we keep on moving around very slow. But the farther away the planet is. The slower it goes around.
Do the planet's move around the sun?
The planets move in an act of gravity
What causes water to move?
Gravity and the moon and sun
Does a planet have less gravity if it is further away from the sun?
No. The surface gravity of a planet is a product of its size and mass. It has nothing to do with distance from the sun. However, a planet farther away from the sun will experience a weaker pull from the sun's gravity.
What does gravity prevents earth from?
flying away from the sun.
Will planet Pluto be attracted to the sun with the same force as the earth?
No. Let's take Earth as a good example to start with. Let's say you look at the force of gravity of Pluto if it were twice as far from the Sun as Earth is. The force of gravity would be 2x2 = 4 times weaker. Move Pluto away from Sun twice that distance, and the force of gravity would be another 4 times weaker. Move Pluto away from the Sun another 2 times its previous distance, and the force of gravity between it and the Sun would be yet another 4 times weaker. And so on, until you reach a point in space where Pluto is really, actually positioned.
What would happen if the suns gravity did not pull the planets tword it?
The planets would no longer follow their orbital paths around the Sun. They would move away from the Sun and travel in straight lines.
How do the planets move?
They are moved by gravity. They accelerate towards the sun.
How does earth move?
Be cause of gravity
