https://padlet.com/lbonne09/jr13xy3crogh en-us 2017-12-06 05:14:51 UTC 2024-10-03 16:08:27 UTC hello@padlet.com lbonne09 https://padlet.com/lbonne09/jr13xy3crogh/wish/213578484 Gravity is like a dent. Say your playing on a trampoline and decide to sit down. You created a dent lets call it a dip in space time. If you put a marble on the trampoline it will slowly circle around you as if it is orbiting you. Gravity pulls the Earth to the Sun causing it to orbit around the Sun. Just like how a marble on a trampoline orbits around you when your on it. ]]> 2017-12-06 05:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lbonne09/jr13xy3crogh/wish/213578484 lbonne09 https://padlet.com/lbonne09/jr13xy3crogh/wish/213579351 How do satellites and the Moon orbit around the Earth? Satellites and the Moon are constantly trying to fall to the Earth by Earths gravitational pull but follows the curvature of the Earth. Meaning it orbits around the Earth. For a example Newton had an idea. Instead of just firing a cannon and letting it eventually hit ground Newton thought that if you somehow managed to fire a cannon at incredibly high speeds it would eventually get back to where it started. This is explains how satellites and the Moon don't just fall from the sky.]]> 2017-12-06 05:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lbonne09/jr13xy3crogh/wish/213579351 lbonne09 https://padlet.com/lbonne09/jr13xy3crogh/wish/213581772 People sometimes mix up mass and weight when they are totally different things. Mass is the amount of matter in a object and will never change on any planet. Weight is the amount of gravity pushing down on a object which can change on different planets with different gravitational pulls. Gravitational pull depends on the amount of mass a planet has. The bigger the mass the more gravitational pull. This is why Jupiter, such a massive planet, has many moons all thanks to its gravitational pull.]]> 2017-12-06 05:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lbonne09/jr13xy3crogh/wish/213581772