Does The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
What holds the moon up? Moonbeams! Don't miss our next video! SUBSCRIBE! ▻▻ http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓ More info and sources below ↓ According to Newton's law of gravitation, the...
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"Hey Joe, I was wondering if you could ask a video about why the moon orbits the Earthinstead of the sun?"[MUSIC]The moon and the sun are about the same size in the sky, which is why we get cool thingslike this.But that’s just a coincidence, thanks to the fact that the sun is about 400 times fartheraway as the moon and its diameter is about 400 times bigger.Get a little farther away, and the view is different… still cool, though.The sun is big. We could line up 109 Earths across its face, and it’s 330,000 timesas massive. In fact the sun holds 99.8% of all the mass in the solar system.But here’s something weird. If we plug the Earth, moon, and sun into the formula forNewton’s law of gravitation, we find out that the sun exerts twice the gravitati...
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"Hey Joe, I was wondering if you could ask a video about why the moon orbits the Earthinstead of the sun?"[MUSIC]The moon and the sun are about the same size in the sky, which is why we get cool thingslike this.But that’s just a coincidence, thanks to the fact that the sun is about 400 times fartheraway as the moon and its diameter is about 400 times bigger.Get a little farther away, and the view is different… still cool, though.The sun is big. We could line up 109 Earths across its face, and it’s 330,000 timesas massive. In fact the sun holds 99.8% of all the mass in the solar system.But here’s something weird. If we plug the Earth, moon, and sun into the formula forNewton’s law of gravitation, we find out that the sun exerts twice the gravitati...
