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Suppose the sun were to suddenly disappear. what would happen to the orbital path of earth
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Suppose the sun were to suddenly disappear. what would happen to the orbital path of earth

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the earth will start moving tangentially to its previous orbit due to lack of centripetal force which was being provided by the sun's gravitational pull.

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It would follow a path perpendicular to the radius of its current orbit
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