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What force controls the movement of planets and moons in your solar system?
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What celestial body controls the movement of the planets?
No celestial body controls the movement of the planets; gravity does. The sun serves as the center of Earth's solar system and provides the greatest gravitational force. This causes the other planets to revolve around the sun. Planets' distances from the sun affect their speed. For instance, Jupiter, which is about 5 times farther from the sun than the Earth is, takes far longer than a year to circle the sun not only because it is farther, but also because the distance weakens gravity and causes it to go slower because it is trying to move out of the Sun's pull.
What is an object that different on other planets in the solar system?
Weight & gravitational force
What do planets orbit heliocentrically?
Because the Sun is so massive that its gravity controls all the planets. Each planet has a force pulling it towards the Sun. There is an equal and opposite force on the Sun but it is so massive it hardly moves, therefore the Sun stays at the centre.
Which force keeps the members of solar system bound to the sun?
Sun's gravitational force keeps all the planets bound to the sun
What is the order of gravitational forces of the planets in your solar system?
The bigger the planet/star the larger the gravational force.
What celestial body controls the movement of the planets?
No celestial body controls the movement of the planets; gravity does. The sun serves as the center of Earth's solar system and provides the greatest gravitational force. This causes the other planets to revolve around the sun. Planets' distances from the sun affect their speed. For instance, Jupiter, which is about 5 times farther from the sun than the Earth is, takes far longer than a year to circle the sun not only because it is farther, but also because the distance weakens gravity and causes it to go slower because it is trying to move out of the Sun's pull.
What controls the motions of the planets?
Gravity is what sets the planets in motion. The force that keeps them in motion is known as inertia in the law of physics.
What force causes planets to orbit the sun in your solar system?
Gravity is the force that connects the solar system to the sun.
What force is responible for the orbits of the planets in the solar system?
Gravity from the Sun holds the planets in their orbits.
What force pulls the planets of the solar system towards the sun?
gravity
What force gives planets stars solar system their shape?
gravity of course
What is an object that different on other planets in the solar system?
Weight & gravitational force
What do planets orbit heliocentrically?
Because the Sun is so massive that its gravity controls all the planets. Each planet has a force pulling it towards the Sun. There is an equal and opposite force on the Sun but it is so massive it hardly moves, therefore the Sun stays at the centre.
How do planets stay on orbit?
The gravity of the Sun keeps the planets in their orbits. They stay in their orbits because there is no other force in the Solar System which can stop them.
Why do the planets stay in orbit and not spin into outer space?
The force keeping planets in orbit is gravity from another, larger planet or mass. The larger the planet, the greater the gravitational force it will have. To give an example, the sun in our solar system keeps earth and all the other planets in our solar system in orbit because it has the greatest mass, meaning it also has the greatest gravitational force.
How dos the world began?
Scientists agree that it was caused by the Big Bang (theory), in which a tremedous explosion pushed all celestial bodies in an outward direction.They are still moving outward from the force of Big Bang, many, many eons ago. Centrifugal force controls the outward movement of all planets, and centripetal force serves to pull them back into their orbits around the sun.
Which force keeps the members of solar system bound to the sun?
Sun's gravitational force keeps all the planets bound to the sun
