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ahhhhhhh! Thank you very much thanks for the responses guys, this is a very dangerous forum for someone like me with lots of questions ;-) ...I'll be back ! Ant.

Hi, I'm new to this and trying to explain gravity to a 10 year old ! My question is.. If I was floating in space on directly the opposite side of the sun to earth, in the same orbit as earth...would Earth eventually catch me up ? if not (as I thought everything in the same orbit moves at the...