Does the Sun have gravitational pull?

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Sun/Gravity

Does the Sun have a gravitational pull on the planets?

The sun’s gravity pulls the planet toward the sun, which changes the straight line of direction into a curve. This keeps the planet moving in an orbit around the sun. Because of the sun’s gravitational pull, all the planets in our solar system orbit around it. The sun is a huge ball of super-hot gas.

Is the Sun and Earth’s gravitational pull the same?

The Sun is 333,000 times more massive than the Earth (more mass increases gravitational force), but it is also 150 million kilometers away (distance decreases gravitational force). The gravitational force between the Sun and the Earth is about 3.54×1022 N. This force keeps the Earth orbiting around the Sun.

What is the Earth’s gravitational pull on the Sun?

Follow-Up #2: gravity and acceleration toward Sun Also how fast would the surface of the Earth, (assuming it wasn’t rotating), be moving under my feet if it passed me? A: The answer for the strength of the gravitational field, in your coordinates, would be 5.9*10-3 meters/sec2, as in an earlier answer in this thread.

What causes the Sun’s gravitational pull?

The gravitational field of the Sun is what it is because the mass of the Sun is roughly 300,000 times the mass of the Earth.

How can the Sun have such strong gravitational pull?

The Sun is a lot more massive than the Earth, and so it has a stronger gravitational field. The Sun exerts the same gravitational force on the planets as it would if it had the same mass but was made of rock.

Does the sun pull harder on the Earth?

The strength of the gravitational pull is also proportional to the mass of the object. The sun is really massive and really big. This makes the strength of gravity on the “surface” of the sun (that is, the photosphere, the shiny part we see), 28 times stronger than the force of gravity on the surface of the Earth.

What causes the sun’s gravitational pull?

How far does the gravitational pull of the Sun reach?

The Sun’s gravitational influence extends to far distances, as evidenced by the Oort cloud out at orbital distances up to 50,000 astronomical units. But at the distance called the Hill sphere, the gravitational force of nearby stars takes over. That’s at around 100,000 astronomical units.

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