Why are we orbiting around the sun not towards it?

Mark your answer is silly not the question.. Read it over and do some
thinking Bert

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:18:39 -0500, "Mark Earnest"
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How come we are not going towards the sun? Sun gravity is so powerful
that every nature satellite is orbiting around it (with the expection
of smaller satellites like moons). I am wondering how come planets are
not going towards the sun.


I am sure my question may sound bit silly to some people.

Good question. The reason that we are not going toward the Sun, a constant
acceleration force due to gravity, is because we are constantly accelerating
perpendicular to the Sun.

Close. The acceleration vector for an object in a uniform circular
orbit is always directed radially inward. For the elliptical orbit of
an object acted upon only by gravity, this is still a reasonable
approximation. What is perpendicular (actually tangential to the
orbit) is the resulting velocity vector.


All which implies that things in space constantly accelerate, if they would
just go fast enough.

Sorry, this one is not close.


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How come we are not going towards the sun? Sun gravity is so powerful
that every nature satellite is orbiting around it (with the expection
of smaller satellites like moons). I am wondering how come planets are
not going towards the sun.


I am sure my question may sound bit silly to some people.


Yep, you are right. It does sound silly. Suggest you take a physics
course and learn about conservation of angular momentum.

Michele The answer to your question gave me my "Spin is in theory"
Nature use of angular motion is to equal the force of gravity. It is the
biggest part of her cosmos balancing act. Reality is angular motion gets
stronger with distance,and gravity gets weaker. I use that for my theory
as to why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. After the
big bang space turned outward,and I use that as the heart of my "Concave
&Convex space theory. It all fits Bert

"G=EMC^2 Glazier" flushed his toilet, and out
came: ...

Michele The answer to your question gave me my "Spin is in theory"
Nature use of angular motion is to equal the force of gravity. It is the
biggest part of her cosmos balancing act. Reality is angular motion gets
stronger with distance,and gravity gets weaker. I use that for my theory
as to why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. After the
big bang space turned outward,and I use that as the heart of my "Concave
&Convex space theory. It all fits Bert


Bert: Angular motion is NOT equal to the force of gravity. Angular motion
is velocity dependent, and gravitation is a constant.

Also, please don't talk out of your ass when someone asks a serious question
and you respond with amphigory.

Ed


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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:41:52 -0400, Scott Miller
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How come we are not going towards the sun? Sun gravity is so powerful
that every nature satellite is orbiting around it (with the expection
of smaller satellites like moons). I am wondering how come planets are
not going towards the sun.


I am sure my question may sound bit silly to some people.


Yep, you are right. It does sound silly. Suggest you take a physics
course and learn about conservation of angular momentum.

Conservation of angular momentum didn't prevent Shoemaker-Levy 9 from
crashing into Jupiter.


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Conservation of angular momentum didn't prevent Shoemaker-Levy 9 from
crashing into Jupiter.


No, but not having ENOUGH did.....

LOL

Ed


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Ed Why so nasty Light speed is a constant. Gravitation varies, Even
on earth things fall faster at the poles than at the equator. Man
weighing200 at the poles weighs199 at the equator. Bert

The weight difference is NOT caused by gravity, but by the spinning
Earth, BEERTbrain!

Saul Levy


On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:51:31 -0400, (G=EMC^2
Glazier) wrote:

Ed Why so nasty Light speed is a constant. Gravitation varies, Even
on earth things fall faster at the poles than at the equator. Man
weighing200 at the poles weighs199 at the equator. Bert

Saul the half of one percent increase of gravity is that the poles are
13 miles closer to the earth's center. I'm wasting my time reasoning
with a half wit. Bert