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Old July 29th 03, 11:01 AM
Ron Miller
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Default Q. Trying to understand concept in gravity


"Jim Jones" wrote in message
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Hi.

If it where possible to create or to send 2 incredibly huge boulders
into outer space from Earth and just let them float out there , would
they eventually revolve around each other ? Is that how masses in
outer space work? They just find their gravitation point, and start to
"do si do" ?


More or less, yes.

What if launched from the moon ?


Would make no difference.

Or, would our solar system reject them? If so, what would it do with
these 2 new intruders, which did not come from way out there, but from
our modest little planet ?


The solar system could care less.

Would they hook up with the asteroid belt outside of mars ?


Not necessarily. They would orbit wherever you launched them to.

Would they stay together at all, if when on earth they had absolutely
no magnetic properties ?


Gravity is the operator here, not magnetism.

Does the pull of gravity get stronger on larger planets and weaker on
smaller planets ?


Yes.

Why do the planets and moons pull (gravity) anyway? Is it because
they're so large? Is it the activity at the core?


It is because of their mass.

RM