If earth exerts Gravity on the sun and the sun exerts gravity on the earth then what stops them from colliding

Answer 1

Think of it like this. If you throw a baseball, it only goes so far before falling to the earth. Throw it harder, still falls. But what if you keep throwing it harder until it flies so far that the earth actually curves away before it hits the ground. It would be forever "falling" toward earth but it runs out of earth because the earth is only so big and it's going so fast. This is orbit. The earth is forever falling toward the sun but it's going fast enough that it just orbits.

Answer 2

Any object with mass will exert a gravity field in space. In a nutshell, the Earth is in a perpetual fall into the sun.

The Earth's mass is large enough to the point where it can't get away from the sun, but at our distance away it won't fall into the sun. It's a balancing act if you will.

In Earth orbit there are areas called Lagrange points where gravity between bodies (the moon, sun) are even or cancelled out.

Answer 3

Well I don't know which class you are in but you should know whenever a body makes any revolution just like the earth around the sun at a specific speed, an external force known as the centrifugal force is developed which pushes the body outwards (it is the same experience when you sit in a car or a bus and when the car turns then your body automatically is pushed to the other direction, opposite to which the car is turning).Thus, this force pushes the earth outwards whereas, their gravitational forces keep the earth back on the orbit. the formula of centrifugal force is mv^2/r, where m=mass, v= velocity at which the body is moving and r=radius of the circular path or the orbit in which the body(the earth) is travelling. If u need more information then just email me at [e-mail]

Answer 4

The earth is in orbit around the sun. If the earth didn't move around the sun at 10,000 mph, it would fall into it, sure as night and day. The earth's gravitational pull on the sun is like a mouse taking a dinosaur out for dinner and a show and hoping to get lucky.

Answer 5

Earth stays in the orbit because centrifugal force and centripetal (gravity) are almost in balance so earth is in fact moving ever slowly but considerably towards the sun.

So some times in distant(billions of years), future earth will collied with the sun.

Answer 6

As far as know it to work, if you stopped the earth dead, it would get drawn into the sun, the fact that we are moving, in a circle or ellipse around the sun, stops us from been draw in. So I have been told, nothing in physics travels in a straight line. Everything travels in a curve when affected by gravity

Answer 7

The sunlight is in actuality around, so, the pull of gravity is calmly allotted. The earth is being pulled in direction of the sunlight, even though it is likewise pulled sideways because of the centripetal tension and the value this is vacationing. That retains us from colliding with the sunlight.

Answer 8

Just like anything in orbit, we are falling. Except that we are also moving sideways. So, as we fall towards the sun, our sideways speed is such that our orbit curves at just the right rate to keep us as the same distance.

So: we keep falling but we keep missing the sun.

Same thing for satellites around earth: if they don't move sideways fast enough, they fall faster than their sideways motion so they eventually hit the ground.

If they move sideways to fast, then they don't fall fast enough and their sideways movement takes them further from the earth.

Answer 9

There's a difference in mass between the two objects.

The force and gravitational pull are so strong for both that it would be virtually impossible for the two to collide.

The perfect balance of our solar system is a beautiful mystery.

Answer 10

the centrepetal acceleration of the earth