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1. What happens to the orbit of the planet if the mass of the sun changes?

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If the sun's mass were to double without pushing or pulling on the Earth, then the Earth's orbit will change to an ellipse which brings it out to our current radius but spends most of its time closer to the sun. The tides would probably get even stronger then, particularly when our orbit takes us closer to the sun.

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