Why the planets and other objects in the solar system orbit around the sun?

Answer 1

The gravitational attraction between the sun and the planets causes them to follow an elliptical orbit at varying speeds, dependant on the planet's mass and distance from the sun.

Answer 2

They orbit the sun because of gravity.

The suns gravity is so great that it can hold in all the following planets, plus lots of asteroids

Mercury, Venus Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto (now not a planet, but a dwarf star).

In that order from closest to furthest.

But what the person above me doesn't seem to notice is that the question was "why", not "what."

It's because the Sun is a star and stars have gravity. The Sun's gravity is more powerful than the planets, but at the same time, the Planets gravity repel from the Sun's gravity. But the Sun only let's each planet go so far. After they reach that edge, Newton's law applies. An object in motion stays in motion unless opposing force stops it. In this case, nothing stops the planet except for the Sun's gravity, which only changes it's direction.

Answer 3

The planets and other objects in the solar system orbit around the sun due to the gravitational force exerted by the sun. This force keeps them in their orbits and prevents them from moving in a straight line into space. The balance between the gravitational pull of the sun and the forward motion of the objects keeps them in orbit.

Answer 4

because the gravity keep them in the solar system :)

>.<

Answer 5

Because the Sun has a great gravitational pull on the planets.

Without the Sun the planets would travel in straight lines (ignoring other gravitational forces in the Universe.)

Answer 6

Objects and planets orbit the sun because of the sun's gravitaional pull.

Answer 7

the Sun has a gravitational pull stronger than any planet so the planets have to go at the right speed to make it around the sun if not the planets would get sucked in and burned

Answer 8

Gravity