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Why doesn't the earth fall down?
Why doesn't the earth fall down?
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The gravitational attraction force between the planet and the Sun balances the centripetal force, maintaining the planet in an elliptical orbit, according to Newton’s laws of motion. There is no such thing as a gravitational pull, as we now know. An orbiting body does not have a centripetal force.