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What causes the earth to be slowly falling toward the sun?
Our Earth is not in a falling orbit.
Do satellites in orbit around Earth continuously fall toward earth?
Satellites orbit the earth for a few years then fall to earth however they are directed to fall to the sea
Is the space station beyond the gravitational pull of the earth?
No. The space station is in a stable orbit around the earth. Eventually, the orbit will decay and the station will begin falling toward the earth if steps are not taken to reestablish the stable orbit.
What has to happen to cause an object in orbit to fall toward earth?
a object is a thing earth can fall by leaning over.
Does the shape of the earth affect the seasons?
While the Earth's orbit is an ellipse rather and a perfect circle, the eccentricity is fairly low, so not much of the seasonal weather changes are due to it. Most of the seasonal changes that we see each year are due to the fact that the Earth is tilted by 23.5 degrees from our orbit. So we have summer where the Earth is tilted toward the sun, and winter where the Earth is tilted away from it.
What do planets do when they orbit the earth?
There are no planets orbiting the Earth because all eight of them orbit the Sun. But the Moon orbits the Earth, and all it does is go round and round in a rather complicated orbit which is disturbed by the Sun's gravity.
What causes a satellite to stay in orbit rather than falling towards earth?
Its forward motion. Please understand that something in orbit IS falling towards Earth.
What causes satellite to stay in orbit rather than falling towards earth?
Its forward motion. Please understand that something in orbit IS falling towards Earth.
What is one complete round of earth on orbit?
Rather simplified: one orbit of the Earth round the Sun is a year. One rotation of the Earth on its axis is a day and a night of 24 hours.
What is the distance from earth before you start falling When an orbit is no longer an orbit?
There is none. Let's say you and the earth were the only 2 objects in our Universe. The two of you would immediately start falling toward EACH OTHER. Of course, with earth being a gigantatillion times bigger than you, all you would notice (if you had delicate instruments to measure your movement) is you falling toward earth. So there is no definite distance from earth before you start falling toward it. In reality, there are trillions of stars and gazillions of tons of space dust - you would fall toward them instead of toward earth, but there would STILL be a tiny tiny amount of falling toward earth.
How do the sun and moon float?
They do not actually float. The moon is constantly pulled toward Earth by gravity, but it is moving "sideways" rather quickly relative to Earth so it has quite a bit of momentum. By the time it would have fallen to Earth it has missed. This is how an orbit works. Similarly Earth orbits the sun and the sun orbits the center of the galaxy.
Why there is unequal length of the seasons?
The Earth's orbit around the sun isn't exactly an orbit that could be named circular. It is rather an elliptical, and therefore the orbit is more of an oval shape. When, in it's orbit, the earth is closer to the sun, the season will tend to go by faster. (Vice Versa).
