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The mutual gravitational force of attraction between you and the sun decreases
as you move farther from the sun. Just the same as the mutual gravitational force
of attraction between you and the earth, or any other body, decreases as you move
farther from the other body.
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How does a planet moves?
The gravitational pull from the sun plus its own pull away from the sun
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.
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.
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
What is the link between the suns gravity and the motion of a planet?
The Sun's gravity causes a planet to move in its orbit. The Sun's gravity provides a centripetal force. The effects of the Sun's gravity, combined with the planet's inertia (tendency to move in a straight line), results in a planet's elliptical orbit.
What does gravity prevents earth from?
flying away from the sun.
How do the planets move?
They are moved by gravity. They accelerate towards the sun.
How does earth move?
Be cause of gravity
