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What keeps us from floating off into the sky and keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?

Gravity is the force that keeps us grounded on Earth and planets in orbit around the sun. Gravity is a pulling force that attracts objects with mass towards each other. In the case of planets orbiting the sun, the gravitational force from the sun keeps them in their respective orbits.


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 name of the force that is holding the planets on their orbit?

The force that holds planets in their orbit is called gravity. Gravity is the force of attraction between objects with mass, which keeps planets in their elliptical paths around the Sun.


What planet do all the planets evolve around?

I am not familiar with planets evolving around any singular planet. If you are referring to orbit, the planets orbit the sun, a star, not a planet, in our solar system. Some planets have moons in their orbit.


What keeps the planets from being pulled into the sun?

The planets are kept in orbit around the sun due to the gravitational force between them. This force, which is a balance between the planet's inertia and the sun's gravitational pull, keeps the planets moving in a stable path around the sun.

Related Questions

Who determined the force that kept planets in orbit?

It was Isaac Newton who figured out that the force of gravity keeps planets in orbit around the sun.


What attractive force keeps planets in orbit around stars?

Gravity.


Why do the planets resolve above the sun?

The suns huge gravitational force keeps the planets in an orbit around it.


What is the force that keeps planet in orbit?

the suns gravity keeps the planets in orbit


A force that keeps planets in orbit?

The force that keeps planets in orbit is gravity. Gravity is the attractive force that exists between two masses, such as a planet and a star, that causes them to be drawn towards each other. In the case of planets orbiting a star, gravity keeps the planets in their elliptical paths around the star.


What keeps us from floating off into the sky and keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?

Gravity is the force that keeps us grounded on Earth and planets in orbit around the sun. Gravity is a pulling force that attracts objects with mass towards each other. In the case of planets orbiting the sun, the gravitational force from the sun keeps them in their respective orbits.


What is the unbalanced centripetal force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun?

The gravitational attraction by the Sun.


What major force keeps the planets and everything in the solar system in orbit around the sun?

gravity


What force keeps the planets and the Moon's to orbit?

Gravity


What force from the sun keeps the planets in their orbit?

Gravity


What keeps the planets in the solar system in orbit around the sun?

The Sun's strong gravity keeps all the planets in orbit around it.


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.