• Question: Is there any gravity on the sun?

    Asked by issi759 to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 14 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      Yes!

      It is the Sun’s gravity that keeps us in orbit around it. Anything with ‘mass’ has a gravitational pull. The more Mass the more gravity it has. Hence why all the planets orbit the sun, and smaller moons orbit planets.

      In fact, say if you and you’re friend both weigh 50kg each and are stood 10 meters apart you would have a force of 0.00000016675 pulling you two together.

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