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Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by jiggerj
If you were able to place an object of the same or even lessor mass of the Planet Neptune at a point in it's orbit around our Sun. This object would begin to accelerate towards the Sun until it fell into it. That is a FACT.
The only reason why the Planets stay in orbit is because they were caught in the Suns Gravity well at a Right Angular Movement away from the Sun that was of a Velocity that was not grat enough to escape the suns gravitational effect thus they orbit.
If the Planets were traveling faster that a certain speed and encountered this orbit such as what happens when a Comet that is traveling at much higher speeds than a Planetary Body passes by the Sun it is temporarily caught then shoots out in a extemely distant eliptical orbit but either eventually returns or continues into interstellar space. Split Infinity
Originally posted by ImaFungi
reply to post by CLPrime
Im sorry to get off topic again, but you mentioned your translations of genesis ( i personally think genesis is a pretty cool writing) do you think when this thread drifts off topic again you can speak about that? your interpretation of genesis and how it relates to what we were speaking of.edit on 10-5-2012 by ImaFungi because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by jiggerj
If you were able to place an object of the same or even lessor mass of the Planet Neptune at a point in it's orbit around our Sun. This object would begin to accelerate towards the Sun until it fell into it. That is a FACT.
The only reason why the Planets stay in orbit is because they were caught in the Suns Gravity well at a Right Angular Movement away from the Sun that was of a Velocity that was not grat enough to escape the suns gravitational effect thus they orbit.
If the Planets were traveling faster that a certain speed and encountered this orbit such as what happens when a Comet that is traveling at much higher speeds than a Planetary Body passes by the Sun it is temporarily caught then shoots out in a extemely distant eliptical orbit but either eventually returns or continues into interstellar space. Split Infinity
We talk about gravity being weak, then we say the sun's gravity is powerful enough to hold planets in orbit billions of miles away, and now I'm going to ask another stupid question. lol If the sun's gravity is that strong, how come it doesn't rip the moons from their planets? We're the third planet, with a moon, and yet way out there the sun is firmly holding MASSIVE planets in place. How can this be? How can earth's gravity holding the moon compare to the sun's?