What i mean is how do they keep moving in there same places without accidentally rotating into a whole diferent galaxy?
2007-04-03 13:28:53 · 7 answers · asked by unknown 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
gravitational pulls from the sun and other planets in our solar system
2007-04-03 13:31:39 · answer #1 · answered by lovr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity is an OK answer to this question but the real answer is inertia. A body in motion tends to stay in motion until it is acted upon by an outside force. The only outside force acting on planets is gravity, which is the weakest of all the forces. All it makes us do is go in a circle, but we never stop. If another body with stronger gravitational attraction than the sun came into our sphere of influence we would go spinning off into the void.
2007-04-03 21:19:10 · answer #2 · answered by eggman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's gravity. Think of yourself as the sun. Connect a tennis ball to a string a few feet long. Now spin it around your head. The string represents gravity, the tennis ball represents a planet.
2007-04-03 20:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each planet makes a gravitational field around each other, pulling each other towards them. the sun is large so keeps everyone in shape.
2007-04-03 20:32:26 · answer #4 · answered by Ryan K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gravitational pull
2007-04-07 15:49:29 · answer #5 · answered by jerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gravitational pull
2007-04-03 20:31:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i thik it is the gravity of the sun
2007-04-03 20:34:06 · answer #7 · answered by nut22222 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋