How much weight would cause earth to fall out of its orbit?

Question

How much weight would cause earth to fall out of its orbit?

Answer 1

I don't think that that is possible because of the fact that the more mass an object has the more attracted it is to other objects. So adding weight would just make it stay in orbit.

Answer 2

About as much weight as the sun itself.  Cause even if Jupiter were somehow moved to Earth's solar orbit, it would still take Jupiter 365 days to orbit the sun just like Earth.  And Jupiter's mass is still only a small fraction of the Sun's mass.  Like about 1/1000 the sun's mass.

Answer 3

Even an impact by a Mars-sized body failed to dislodge Earth from its orbit around the Sun, although the impact probably did change our axis of spin to the present 23.5 degrees to the plane of the solar system. To escape the Sun, Earth would require a speed of 11,000 mph (5 km/s) over its orbital speed of 67,000 mph (30 km/s). It's difficult to envision a force that could accelerate the mass of Earth to such a speed and therefore improbable Earth will ever escape the Sun.

Earth may have been in a slightly different orbit before the Mars-sized body hit it but is unlikely to change much in the future. Earth's orbit has been relatively stable for over four billion years with little sign of change in its predictable orbits for at least the next five billion years. Although the Sun is shrinking slightly, astronomers believe this is a temporary contraction and has negligible effect on Earth's orbit.

Answer 4

The weight, or mass of an orbiting object has nothing to do with it staying in orbit.

Answer 5

impossible, u dont have weight in space. there is no gravity so teir is no weight because everything that gives u weight is floating.

Answer 6

incalculable (well for the ordinary person anyways, i'm sure there's some geniuses that could and even would take the time to figure it out)

suffice to say that the sun would have to be flung out of it's orbit and pass within a few thousand miles of us to effectively 'throw' us anywhere... if the sun just disappeared, the earth would begin drifting from ti's orbit...

in that sense, you don't have to add weight, you have to reduce it... which is why i answered what it'd take to completely throw earth away.

Answer 7

No amount of additional weight would cause Earth to leave its orbit. It's the sun's gravity that keeps us in orbit. Since the force of gravity is proportional to mass, if you added more mass (weight) to the Earth, the sun's gravity would pull on the added mass the same as it pulls on the existing mass, and it would all continue in the same orbit.

Answer 8

Let's say my new high tech diet causes me to double my weight every day (it's McDonalds).  In just a month i'll weigh billions of pounds.  This does nothing to the Earth's orbit.  Not even a week later when i'm over a trillion pounds.

My neighbors might complain, though.

Answer 9

Weight has nothing to do with it,it is strictly speed.