Floating in Space: Can Humans Create Their Own Orbits?

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Humans can theoretically create their own orbits in space due to their ability to bend spacetime, although the practical implications are negligible. A discussion participant posed a hypothetical scenario involving a person with a mass of 80 kg and an object in a 10m radius orbit. To determine the distance from Earth where the gravitational pull from Earth is one-tenth that of the person, Newton's law of gravitation must be applied, specifically the formula Fgrav = G Ma Mb / d².

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This question came to me as having an obvious answer yet I don't know. If a human is floating in space they bend spacetime themselves and could technically have small stuff orbit them. Sorry for the dumb question; just been bothering me.
thanks for any help
 
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smokering0 said:
This question came to me as having an obvious answer yet I don't know. If a human is floating in space they bend spacetime themselves and could technically have small stuff orbit them. Sorry for the dumb question; just been bothering me.
thanks for any help

Yes, theoretically that is true.

Quiz question for you: imagine an object (mass M) orbiting a person (mass 80 kg) in a 10m radius orbit. How far from the Earth must the person be, so that the Earth's gravitational pull on the object is 1/10 that of the person's gravitational pull on the object?

Use Newton's law of gravitation,

Fgrav = G Ma Mb / d2​
 

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