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
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