What physical force makes moon go around the earth? Also what force makes our earth go around the sun?

Question

What physical force makes moon go around the earth? Also what force makes our earth go around the sun?

Answer 1

gravitational pull. The earth is caught in the suns gravitational field whilst the moons caught up in the earth gravitational field.

Sir Isaac Newton: “I deduced that the forces which keep the planets in their orbs must be reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve; and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the Earth; and found them answer pretty nearly.”

Answer 2

There is no force which continues to act on a body in order to keep it at a certain speed - in the absense of friction, an object will continue to move at that speed.

However, orbits are entirely different. It is the gravitational force of the sun which effectively accellerates the object towards itself, over and over, for eternity. Because the object has transversal velocity (tangential to the direction of the sun), this accelleration results in a trajectory around the sun. If the transversal velocity of the object is great enough, the object will never get any closer to the sun, and can be said to be in a stable orbit.

The gravitational force is a direct result of, and is proportional to, the mass of the body producing it. All objects project a gravitational force, from the mighty gravitational field of the sun, to the field given off by your little finger.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

The force is the gravitational pull of the sun that makes earth go around it and gravitational pull of the earth which makes moon go around it...

Answer 4

GRAVITATIONAL FORCE

Answer 5

Force of habit.