If earths velocity is what keeps us in orbit then if we slow down do we fall into the sun? Are we slowing down? And if not why not? Isn’t there a tiny fraction of friction in space that might slow us down eventually? It seems so unlikely that we would enter the solar system so perfectly that we would start to orbit. Have there been a thousand planets before us that just missed the mark or is there something keeping us on track?
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But isn’t true that our galaxy is moving through space? So these aren’t just stationary orbits, but elliptical orbit around something that’s also moving. I’m only asking as I didn’t study astrophysics at university. Very interesting
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