What is the force that holds the solar system together?

Answer 1

Gravity and speed. The mass of the sun is 330,000 times the mass of the Earth, and 1048 times the mass of Jupiter. This prevents the planets from moving away. What prevents them from falling closer to the sun is the speed at which the planets are moving, which is 30 kilometers a second for earth.

Answer 2

not gravity

Why not gravity? I've always believed that gravity keeps the worlds together, but if you've got a better explanation, I'd like to hear it.

Just a hint though: Starting your sentences with capital letters and ending them with proper punctuation will go a long way toward people taking you seriously.

Answer 3

The simple answer, with the fewest explanations necessary, is gravity. The amount of space displaced by a solar system holds it together. The not-so-simple answer is that gravity is not the only thing that holds systems together; dark matter also often holds a role in holding solar systems and galaxies together.

Answer 4

The gravitational pull of the sun keeps the planets within the solar system.

The counteracting effect of the planet's own velocity keeps the planet from collapsing into the sun and so merely orbiting it.

If you mean what binds a planet together, that's the planet's own gravity.

In one word: Gravity

Answer 5

the sun's gravitational force holds the solar system

Answer 6

the sun's gravity pulls all the planets towards it, and inertia keeps them in place, instead of going straight to the sun.

hope that helps!

Answer 7

Gravity.

Answer 8

gravity