If the force of gravity between the sun and the planets suddenly disappeared, what type of path would the Earth follow?
2007-12-02 11:43:45 · 11 answers · asked by Chris C 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The earth would make a bee-line for intertellar space. The temperature would eventually plummet to -459 degrees and we'd all freeze to death if we didn't starve first.
2007-12-02 11:48:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would be flung into an orbit similar to that of a comet and begin a lonely wandering through the Galaxy until it either was pulled into another object or into the Gavitational pull of another sun and/or planet.
Regardless of what it did, All life would be dead real quick.
2007-12-02 14:00:44 · answer #2 · answered by bnyxis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you know already what is going to happen. Could you just not turn off the gravity for a another little while? I have brownies in the oven.
2007-12-02 14:18:25 · answer #3 · answered by Ultraviolet Oasis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newtons law. Object moves with the same speed and same direction as long as no force is affecting it !! so earth keeps travelling straight
Infact nothing happens to earth !!!!
2007-12-03 06:22:06 · answer #4 · answered by EsBee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there wouldn't be an earth. The gravitational pull is what holds our planet together and put it together in the first place.
2007-12-02 12:49:14 · answer #5 · answered by Kassie K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We will continue to orbit the galaxy without the additional motion of sun orbit.
2007-12-02 12:28:26 · answer #6 · answered by The Lazy Astronomer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Straight until it got caught up into another object's gravitational pull.
2007-12-02 11:47:04 · answer #7 · answered by Derek T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well it will just float until it found something to orbit around. I think that it would be Jupiter that we would orbit. but it will be to cold for life with out the sun so that does not matter that much.
2007-12-02 11:52:47 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we would continue to go straight and until the end of the universe and eventually die cuz we have no heat
2007-12-02 11:53:31 · answer #9 · answered by Pistonsfan101 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would head off into the wild black yonder and we would all die.
2007-12-02 11:49:00 · answer #10 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋