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To: BenLurkin

?? I wonder how all these objects of differing mass and size can maintain the same orbit around the sun as their parent planet?? I would think that gravitational pull would differ.


7 posted on 10/16/2012 10:37:44 AM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Noob1999
?? I wonder how all these objects of differing mass and size can maintain the same orbit around the sun as their parent planet?? I would think that gravitational pull would differ.

Probably at the Lagrangian points, where the pulls of the Sun and the planet balance out. Something that gets into a Lagrangian point tends to stay there.

8 posted on 10/16/2012 4:28:03 PM PDT by Vroomfondel
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