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What outside force prevents the planets from moving in a straight line into space
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What outside force prevents the planets from moving in a straight line into space

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gravity is what causes the planets to stay in there revolution, and what causes them to not drift into space. hope I helped:)
User Davidpodhola
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Ah hah ! That's the gravitational force between the sun
and each planet.

One of the many things that would be different without
gravity is: There would be no orbits.
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