Imagine I threw something in space with a certain force, will it keep going forever in the direction thrown since there is no resistance? Or will it stop depending on the force?
Also suppose so much time has passed will the object still be floating (still moving a little bit here and there) or will it stand exactly still.
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Answers by others are correct. Here is my answer in a more realistic scenario
In reality almost no area of space is without any gravity except few voids. So let’s take a realistic example of an astronaut throwing an Object in space from space station. Since the space station is already orbiting earth due to force of gravity from earth, this Object will separate from astronaut but it will maintain some orbit around the earth and it will keep orbiting earth forever.
There are chances it will collide with some debris in space and maybe loose energy plunge violently towards earth and may burn itself while entering atmosphere at such high speeds.
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