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Your pencil and the Earth both have mass. For that reason, there are always a pair
of gravitational forces trying to pull the pencil and Earth together toward each other.
Most of the time, you're holding onto the pencil and not letting them move toward
each other. But when you let go of the pencil, then both the pencil and the Earth
are free to move. Then the Earth falls toward the pencil, and the pencil falls toward
the Earth. The motion stops when the floor and the pencil meet.

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