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-- Without gravity, there would be no orbits.

-- Gravity bends the motion of a planet into a curve. Without gravity, the planet

would continue in a straight line, and there would be no orbits.

-- Once you completely understand gravity, you can figure out everything there is

to know about orbits, because it all comes from the behavior of gravity.

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