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Are the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt always moving?
Yes, they orbit the sun, a nice balance of centrifugal force and gravity. If they did not move, relative to the sun, the sun's gravity would pull the asteroids into
How do comets move?
Is there gravity on the asteroid belt?
Yes, the force of gravity is constantly acting upon the asteroid belt. It is in fact thought that this is why the asteroids in the asteroid belt didn't become planets; as the gravitational pull of Jupiter caused, and still causes the asteroids to move about and therefore never form into a larger planet.
Do asteroids move slower than stars?
Most asteroids orbit around stars and move faster than them.
Does a comets speed change as it orbits the sun?
Yes. Comets have highly elliptical orbits. They move fastest when they are nearest the sun and slowest when they are farthest away.
Why does gravity have no effect on comets asteroids and meteors to make them round or sphereical?
because meteor and etc. move across the sky so that gravity can't get to them.
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.
Are the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt always moving?
Yes, they orbit the sun, a nice balance of centrifugal force and gravity. If they did not move, relative to the sun, the sun's gravity would pull the asteroids into
What pull of gravity makes surface material move?
what way gravity move material
How do comets move?
Gravity also makes water move. What makes water move?
Air pressure or water pressure makes water move.
What is what makes a glacier move down a mountain?
Gravity
What is a comets place in space?
Comets move
Do asteroids cross the Earth's orbit as they orbit the Sun?
Yes, asteroids orbit Sun, even meteors and comets. But generally, every pieces of asteroid doesn't have orbits, it has a zone. They bump each other until they form into a larger ones. If an asteroid got out of the zone it now move freely into space and crashes into a planet by gravity. Astronomers now detected a planet, or a dwarf planet, or still an asteroid itself, called Ceres
What makes it move faster as it approaches the ground?
force of gravity
What makes an object move faster and faster when it falls?
gravity
Is there gravity on the asteroid belt?
Yes, the force of gravity is constantly acting upon the asteroid belt. It is in fact thought that this is why the asteroids in the asteroid belt didn't become planets; as the gravitational pull of Jupiter caused, and still causes the asteroids to move about and therefore never form into a larger planet.
