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    What Pulls the Sun? Understanding Gravitational Pull and Mass Effect

    @Garth Thank you for your clear answer!
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    What Pulls the Sun? Understanding Gravitational Pull and Mass Effect

    Isaac Newton found out that the strength of the pull of gravity weakens the farther you get away from an object, in proportion to 1/(r*r), where r is the distance you are away from the center. The strength of the gravitational pull is also proportional to the mass of the object. The nearest...
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    What Pulls the Sun? Understanding Gravitational Pull and Mass Effect

    I can "understand" the gravitational pull of the sun on the Earth and the Earth mass effect toward the moon, but what pull the sun? a neophyte.
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