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Quite simply gravity and momentum.
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What is the force that keeps the planets from moving closer or further from the sun?
centripetal force.
What force keeps the planets moving forward in their orbits?
The force you seek is gravity.
What force keeps the planets in rotation?
The force that keeps all of our planets in rotation is gravity.
Which force is responsible for making planets and satellites travel in near circular orbits?
Gravity and inertia. Inertia keeps the planets moving while the gravity of the sun keeps the planets drawn to orbit in ellipses.
Why planets do not collide with each other although there is strong gravitational force between them?
Inertia keeps them moving forward.
What keeps the planets and sun in orbit?
The question probably means "What keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun?" The answer to that is : The Sun's gravitational attraction provides the force needed to keep the planets in orbit. This force doesn't pull the planets any closer to the Sun, but it stops the planets moving away (at a tangent to their orbits) due to their own velocities.
What is the force that keeps the planets in order?
The force of gravity.
What keeps the planets on their path?
The gravity of there star keeps them on path and a planets moon is sun around by its planets gravitational force
What is the force that keeps the planets from moving close to the sun?
No force is needed, which is lucky because there isn't any. A planet's speed in the direction of its orbit prevents it from falling in closer.
What is the force that keeps the planets from moving closer to the sun?
No force is needed, which is lucky because there isn't any. A planet's speed in the direction of its orbit prevents it from falling in closer.
Newton's 1st law of motion states that a moving object will go in a straight line unless an outside force changes this motion What outside force prevents the planets from moving in a straight line in?
It's not that there is some force keeping the planets from falling into the sun; the sun's gravity prevents the planets from travelling in a straight line out of the solar system. If you throw a ball in a straight line then it keeps going, but if you throw a ball on a rope tied to a pole then the rope pulls the ball toward the pole and keeps the ball moving in a circle.
What force keeps the sun and planets in their places?
nothing
