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The Law of Gravitation explains the fundamental reason why the planets all revolve around the sun. Since the sun is much more massive than any of the plantes, they are attracted continuously toward the sun. Thus they follow an orbit which is a compromise between the tendency of their own motion to carry them away into space ( inertia ) and the gravitational pull of the sun.

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