Thursday, August 11, 2011

Why isn't the Earth spiraling into/away from the Sun?

The earth is trapped in a gravity well created by the sun. The Earth's angular momentum which is the velocity times mass, so this is like a skateboarder riding on a walled rink The momentum of the Earth is so huge compared with solar wind, sun's mass loss and particle drag of the earth hitting the solar wind. BTW the gravity effects of the moon and the other planets have a much greater effect

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