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If the force of gravity suddenly stopped acting on the planets, they would

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they would explode. lol.
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If this were to happen, they would slowly spiral to the sun and continue to orbit the sun, thus moving in straight lines, tangent to their orbits, and slowly spiral away from the sun.
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