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What would happen to an object in orbit without gravity pulling down?
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What would happen to an object in orbit without gravity pulling down?

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it would float in space since there is nothing to pull it
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Orbits only exist because of gravity.

If gravity somehow suddenly shuts off, then an object
in an orbit sails away in a straight line, in the direction
and at the speed it had when gravity disappeared.

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