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Using the Law of Gravitation, explain why the moon orbits the earth and the planets orbit the sun.

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i believe it in kepler's second law

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The gravity of the Sun keeps them in their orbits rotating. Just as the Moon orbits the Earth because of the pull of earth's gravity, the earth orbits the Sun because of the pull of the Sun's gravitational pull.
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