What rotational force causes our solar system to rotate around the Sun?
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It is a balance between the centrifugal (outward) and the centripetal forces. The centripetal force in this case is gravity. Centripetal merely denotes the direction of the force and not the force in itself.
Gravity.
Centripetal force
Centripetal Force
stuff started rotating long ago, and nothing stops it.
"started rotating" actually means that things that didn't rotate fell into the Sun - that's why sun is so much larger than the planets.
Gravity! Exactly. The sun has the most mass in our solar system and each planet revolves around the sun.
But you must understand that it's a balance of gravity and inertia! As much as the planets want to move, the gravitational pull keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun!
Inertia makes a planet go in a straight path but gravity pulls that planet to make an orbit.
Gravity, you giant ding-a-ling.
its gravity. if you answered centripedal force, then you are a tool.
It's called gravity. Look into it.
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