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How can Gravity be the Reason for Orbits to Occur?

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-An Object to Accelerate needs a Force. And an Object Moving in a Circle - the Force [Centripetal] is going Towards the Centre. This is what Gravity does -Now, The reason why we haven't gone inside the Sun is because we are Moving. So this Centripetal Force makes us Change Directions -And its Velocity of the Object is always at Right Angles to the Acceleration. This makes a Circle


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