What Keeps the Planets and Moons in Orbit?

What Keeps the Planets and Moons in Orbit?
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Space and Astronomy
Solar System
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Integrate physical and Earth science with this worksheet about the physics of the solar system. Students will use reference materials to research planetary rotation, orbits, and gravitational pull.

Excerpted from

Concepts and Challenges Earth Science
Concepts and Challenges of Earth Science
From Pearson's Concepts and Challenges Earth Science.

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