wh sun is not attracted towards earth since?

Question

gravitation

Answer 1

The sun and earth exert equal gravitational forces on each other. If you ignore all the other interacting bodies, the sun and earth rotate about a common center of mass (which is actually located inside the sun). Contrary to what one answerer said, the earth is not in a "tenuous" or precariously balanced orbit. Our velocity in solar orbit is about 18.5 miles/sec. If we added (or subtracted) a bit of speed, say 1 mile/sec, our orbital shape would become more (or less) energetic and more elliptical. We might not like the climate change but we wouldn't fly off or crash into the sun. The velocity and the distance between the bodies determines the orbit. Change one or the other and you have a different orbit. Remove all velocity and you crash into the sun; add a huge velocity increment and you escape. (Note that if you're in a circular orbit you are traveling at escape velocity * 0.707, so that tells you how much faster you need to be going to escape.) This intrinsic stability enabled early experiments in putting objects into earth orbit before precise velocity control was available. The orbits weren't beautiful (and earth orbits will always decay due to atmospheric drag) but they were otherwise stable.

Answer 2

The sun and the earth each have gravitational fields, and the two bodies ARE attracted to each other. However, the earth is moving at too great a speed to collide with the sun at present. Over the course of time, the earth WILL eventually be pulled into the sun, as the sun's gravitational pull slowly but surely slows the earth. This will take millions, if not billions, of years however, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Answer 3

By the law of gravitation,everything is attracted towards each other.Hence both the sun &the earth are attracted towards eachother.Therefore the gravitational force exerted by the two bodies is the same.However the mass of earth is much less than that of the sun. Acceleration=force/mass.As the force exerted is equal & the mass of earth is smaller than the sun therefore the earth experience a greater acceleration and is thereby attracted towards the sun.On the other hand the sun on account of it's huge mass has negligible acceleration & thereby is not attracted towards the earth.

Answer 4

The sun is attracted to earth, as indeed both earth, sun, all planets and stars are all attracted to each other.

The sun is the Daddy surrounded by everything else and is pulled in all directions, whereas all the rest have to do what the sun says. We have the moon, which exerts a large pull on earth (although not as large as vice-versa) and hence we have spring and neap tides depending on where the moon is.

I am exerting a gravitational pull on you right now, not that you would notice it!

Answer 5

Everything in the universe is attracted to everything else. However, sometimes the attraction is very small due to the enormous differences.

The earth doesn't revolve around the sun only; the sun revolves around the earth, too. It just does so on such a tiny, tiny, tiny scale that no one would be able to notice.

Scientists can discover neat things about distant star systems by the way the stars and celestial bodies move; their movements give them clues about other objects they may be close enough to be affected by.

Answer 6

all bodies of mass have the quality of attraction , Gravity.the speciality of gravity is that it is npot repelled by any any similar force as in the case of magnets and electromagnetic and electric forces.The strenth of attraction depends on the mass o the body and the the diostance between the bodies . It is in direct proportioin to the mass and inverse proportion to the square of the distnsce ,the sun being several million times biger than the earth , the tiny mass of the earth can nt pull it whre as the biggetst mass in the solar syatem being the sun , it is capapble of attracting eerything .It is like the horae she magnet attr5acting a pin and the pin not being able to drag a horse shoe magnet .A mosquitto can not carry an elephant, but a n elephant can carry a mosquitto.

Answer 7

The sun and earth are attracted to each other. That's why the earth stays in orbit around the sun rather than just travelling through the universe in a straight line.

Answer 8

we have gravitational force F=G M*m/r^2 so M is the greater mass that is of sun.

this force is always towards the greater mass it all comes from vectors formulae. try out some refrences.

hence sun is not attracted towards sun but the distance between is such that earth only orbits around sun and does not colllide into it.

it is this Force that keeps earth orbiting in its orbit around the sun

Answer 9

Orbiting is the result of a tenuous balance between inertia and gravitational attraction. i.e. If the earth were moving faster than it does it would just fly off into outer space. Conversely, if the earth were moving a little slower than it does, it would simply crash into the sun.

Answer 10

The earth is much, much smaller than the sun and the gravitational pull is equally small. Thus, the sun has more pull than the earth, which keeps us rotating around it instead of visa versa.