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"i've got the moon on a string."

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How many pieces of string does it take to get to the moon?

One. But it's a mighty loooooong string.


What is going to happen if you Imagine tying a string to a ball and twirling it around you how is it similar to the moon orbiting earth?

The string acts like the gravity of the earth. the circular motion of the ball imitates the orbit of he moon.


Why do moons not fall into the planet they are orbating?

Think of swinging a ball around and around on the end of a string. The ball will stay straight out at the end of the string. The ball stays suspended at the end of the string because the moving ball wants to go straight but it can't because the string is holding it -- keeping it from flying away. The force the string is exerting on the ball is called centripetal force.Moons rotate around their planets just as the ball swings around on the string. The planet's gravity acts as the string, holding the moon from flying off into space.


How many balls of string does it take to reach the moon?

It would require an extremely large number of balls of string to reach the moon, due to the moon's distance of about 238,855 miles from Earth. The exact number would depend on the length of each ball of string, but it would be in the billions or even trillions.


How does gravity not let the moon crash into earth?

If you tie a weight on the end of string and twirl the string around your head you can feel the weight trying to fly away from you. But the string you're holding won't let it fly away. The result is the weight circles around your head. The moon (..the weight..) moves through space with a certain speed. That speed is trying to throw the moon off into deep space. But at the same time Earth's gravity (..the string..) is trying to pull the moon down out of the sky. The two forces exactly cancel each other and the result is the moon neither flying off into space nor crashing down to Earth but going around and around it.


How is moon river played?

In my school concert yesterday we had the school's string orchestra playing it once on their own and then they play it again with us. The string orchestra was all violind apart from the piano.


Why does the moon move in in orbit around the earth?

The moon is trapped in the gravitational pull of the earth. The earth and the moon are trapped in the gravitational pull of the sun. It is like whirling a small weight attached to a length of string round your head. The only thing stopping the weight to fly off (into space) is the string - which is the same force of gravitational pull we experience from our orbit round the sun.


If the moon in its orbit around earth behaves like a ball at the end of a string being swung above your head what forces are involved?

The forces involved in the moon's orbit around Earth are gravitational force and centripetal force. The gravitational force from Earth keeps the moon in orbit, while the centripetal force acts as the tension in the string, pulling the moon towards the center of its orbit.


What keeps the planetsasteroids and your moon in orbit?

The force of those objects' gravity and the gravity of the Sun pull on each other. The result is similar to whirling a ball tied to a string around and around yourself. The string is like the force of gravity.


What is a sentence using the word centripetal?

A ball on a string is an example of centripetal acceleration


What instrument measures a soccerfield?

A measuring wheel, string or measuring tape. A laser is also used to measure distances to as far away as the moon.


How is tying a piece of string to a ball and twirling it around similar to the moon orbiting earth?

because they both rotate. If you hold the string with your and swing the ball around, the ball going around your hand is like a planet going around its star.