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BANG! Why Is There Gravity On Earth And Not In Space

Louis Barbier November 2002 What Would Happen to Earth if. In the end there seems to be huge misunderstanding about gravity.


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Gravity affects everything everywhere although in space it is usually such a small effect that it can be ignored.

Why is there gravity on earth and not in space. The gravity generated by the Sun Earth the Moon and other planets stretches throughout outer space. Only its very very small. Some people think that there is no gravity in space.

Why is there gravity on Earth and not in space. It is possible for a spacecraft to go far enough from Earth that a person inside would feel very little gravity. Gravity causes Earth to orbit the sun.

Gravity however does become weaker with distance. I wish I knew but thats the way it is. Anything with mass creates gravity.

Why is there gravity on Earth but not in space. Gravity is a function of mass and of distance. There is gravity in space as well as on earth.

Blue Sky Science. The moon is in free fall and its being attracted by the force of the Earths gravity. In fact a small amount of gravity can be found everywhere in space.

Therefore if there is no. It is because the ball is already in motion around you. Scientists can explain lots of facts and effects of gravity and know why the earth attracts an apple and why and how it falls but we do not know why gravity exists.

Albert Einstein described gravity as a curve in space that. It would fall straight into the Earth but its moving perpendicular to that line of force fast enough to stay in orbit. There is no air in space.

Yes there is gravity on the International Space StationBased on Newtons law of gravity which says that the force between two objects in this case a person and the Earth is equal to G times the persons mass times the Earths mass divided by the squared distance between the person and the center of the Earth we can calculate. The greater the distance the lesser the gravity. Orbiting just means that an object falls towards a planet due to gravity and continually misses it.

The moon and other objects in orbit are doing exactly the same thing. Gravity is pretty much everywhere. There are additional forces other than gravity that affect our lives such a electric and magnetic forces as well as the forces that keep the nucleus of the atom together.

We just feel it in different ways depending on our state of motion. Is there gravity on the International Space Station. The astronauts are too far away from Earths surface to be subject to.

There is gravity in space. Gravity can never be completely taken away even if an astronaut is floating aimlessly in space they will eventually come into the gravitational field of a large object. Space is a vacuum and there is no gravity in a vacuum.

Earths gravity is what keeps you on the ground and what makes things fall. Gravity causes Earth to orbit the sun. Is there gravity in space.

Gravity is a force that is very prevalent in space even if it is not strong everywhere. If you are in space and the earth is the nearest astronomical object you fall towards earth. Gravity is a centrally attractive force so going down means falling or being pulled towards the center of the nearest massive object.

At the altitude of the ISS about 400 km. The answer is gravity. This is one of the great mysteries of life.

In fact a small amount of gravity can be found everywhere in the space. Some people think that there is no gravity in space. Down is therefore towards the earths center and up is away from the earths center when close to the earth.

I believe the reasoning follows like so. Gravity causes every object to pull every other object toward it. Earths gravity is still pulling down on astronautsin orbit.

The planet Earth warps time in a similar way. Gravity from the Sun reaches throughout the solar system and beyond keeping the planets in their orbits. In fact a small amount of gravity can be found everywhere in space.

We cant see the warping but special scientific machines called atomic clocks can measure it. Gravity however does become weaker with advancedmd distance. In outer space however there is no ground to push against astronauts.

Gravity keeps satellites and the moon on its orbit around the earth and the earth on its orbit around the sun. It keeps the sun in place in the Milky Way galaxy. But where the space station roams some 220miles 354 km up the force of gravity is still about 90 percent what it ishere on the surface.

Astronauts are weightless in space. Gravity from Earth keeps the Moon and human-made satellites in orbit. Gravity is what holds the moon in orbit around Earth.

Why is there gravity on Earth and not in space. There is no gravity in space and they do not weigh anything. Because space is so large and planets are so small by comparison its actually very hard to hit planets.

An animation of gravity at work. It is in motion around the earth and is continously falling towards the earth as the earths gravity pulls on it but since it is already moving around the earth it never is pulled into the earth because it always misses. Its called microgravity because it is so small.

An invisible force that pulls objects toward each other. Some people think that there is no gravity in space. Gravity is what holds the moon in orbit around Earth.

This is like the space ship. It keeps the sun in place in the Milky Way galaxy. It is possible for a spacecraft to go far enough from Earth that a person inside would.

Specifically the mass of two objects and the distance between them The greater the mass the greater the gravity. The second reason that gravity is not so obvious in space is because objects tend to orbit planets instead of hitting them. It gives shape to the orbits of the planets the solar system and even galaxies.

On Earth astronauts feel the force of gravity as weight because Earths surface prevents them from falling. In relation to the surface of Earth gravity is obviously weaker the further from Earth you go but gravity is still there in space. Interestingly astronauts in the space station are not weightless instead they are falling but they are not falling to the earth because they are falling with the speed of gravity while moving horizontally enough to continuously miss the earth.

Gravity is not absent in space. There is gravity everywhere. Due to this gravity it is stuck in the orbit of earth and not falling and not going away from the earth orbit.

Indeed without that gravity it would fly off from the orbit.


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