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How symmetric do we know the gravitation field to be?
Currently, the only ways to measure gravity is on quite large scale. So these experiments measure gravity averaged between vast systems of particles. Of course, such an averaging results¹⁾ in a ...
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Tidal forces in the early solar system
I'm reading a book called "Gravity from the ground up" by Bernard Schutz. I don't understand this section from Investigation 13.3 on page 159, which discusses the formation of the solar ...
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Escape Velocity from Moon to escape Earth-Moon System
So the escape velocity at Earth is roughly 11.2 km/s, but with the escape velocity of the moon it says that it is 2.38 km/s but since the moon is orbiting the Earth, wouldn't the effective escape ...
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What happened to Newton 3rd law if our Moon is moving away at 1.5" yearly? [closed]
Our Moon is going away and I read that it is the culprit is our ocean, but then what happens to Newton 3rd law there should be an equal and opposite forces too so where's that? Is it absorbed by the ...
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Inquiry Regarding Hypothetical Celestial Mechanics Scenario
How would the addition of a second sun, located at the other focus of the planet's elliptical orbit, impact the motion and orbit of the planet? Specifically, how would the gravitational forces from ...
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Is a satellite revolving in Earth's orbit also affected by the gravity of the Sun or other planets?
The Earth revolves around the Sun and a satellite also revolves around the Earth. The Sun has a gravitational effect on all celestial bodies, so does it also have an effect on the satellite? If so ...
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Escape velocity when Sun is present
When we calculate escape velocity for an object from earth, what we do is, we conserve energy. So if $v$ is the escape velocity, we write
$$-\frac{GM_em}{R_e}+\frac{1}{2}mv^2=0$$ since we are assuming ...
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Why does the Earth move away from the Sun?
From the (Wikipedia's) definition of the astronomical unit $AU$, we have that it is defined as:
$AU=\sqrt[3]{\dfrac{GMD^2}{k^2}}$
Where $k\approx0.01720209895$ is Gauss' gravitational constant, $G$ is ...
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How to calculate Earth's speed due to moon induced orbit? [closed]
In https://stackoverflow.com/q/75297814/
the answer for the problem was that the earth like the moon had a speed due to the moon induced orbit. I don't understand how this was calculated? I have ...
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Does the Sun or Moon affect weight measurements on Earth?
The gravitational acceleration due to the Earth at its surface, $g_E$, is
$$g_E = 9.8\hbox{ m/s${^2}$}.$$
The gravitational acceleration due to the Sun at the Earth's position is
$$g_S = 5.9 \times 10^...
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Moon, Earth and the Sun [closed]
How to prove that the geometric locus of the points where the attractive forces of the Sun and the Moon are of equal intensity is a sphere of radius $ r = \frac{R \sqrt{Mm}}{M-m } $, where $M$ is ...
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How do the planets stay in their orbit? [duplicate]
The Sun has a strong gravity. The planets also have gravity. So they attract each other. But then why dont they go and mix up with the Sun?
If it is the orbit of the planets or a pre-existing motion ...
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How do we know orbits go in an elliptic shape?
I never really understood how we found out the orbits our planets follow are elliptical and not in a circle.
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Delta v of a trans-Mars injection (TMI)
Why does it only take about 600 m/s more than Earth's escape velocity to have an encounter with Mars while it takes much more Delta v (about 3 km/s) from a solar orbit (same as Earth orbit) to have an ...
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Is it possible for a moon to have the same orbital period as its planet?
Is it possible for a planet to take just as long to orbit its star as a moon takes to orbit the planet? If we assume circular orbits, then
$\text{orbital period}\sim \sqrt{\frac{\text{radius}^{3}}{\...
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