WHAT IS GRAVITY?

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WHAT IS GRAVITY?

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Gravity is a FORCE.
 It

PULLS.
PULLS.
PULLS.
EVERYTHING has gravity.

We have gravity…

but we can’t feel it.

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You can try this for yourself.

Stand next to your friend…

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Can you feel the force of your friend’s body
pulling on you?

No.

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We can’t feel the
GRAVITATIONAL FORCE of
other people because we
are too small.

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Now, these rocks are very big...

but they are

still not big
enough.

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But what about these two rocks?

The earth and the moon.

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The earth pulls the moon.

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The moon also pulls the earth.

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 The earth is bigger than the moon…

so its GRAVITATIONAL FORCE is stronger…

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but there are things
that are bigger than
Earth.

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 Jupiter is much bigger than Earth.

Jupiter

so its GRAVITATIONAL FORCE is even stronger…

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but Jupiter is also much further away.
Jupiter
384,000 km

Earth

588,000,000 km

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 All of the planets have
GRAVITATIONAL FORCE…

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but there is one thing in our solar system
that is so huge that it has the strongest
GRAVITATIONAL FORCE of all...
the sun!

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The earth’s gravity keeps our feet on
the ground…

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because everything on the earth is
pulled downwards.
So, what would
happen to us if there
was no gravity?

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 Well…
If there was no gravity we would fly off
into space!

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