Consider the earth following its nearly circular orbit (dashed curve) about the sun.(Figure 2) The earth has mass mearth = 5.98×1024 kg and the sun has mass msun = 1.99×1030kg. They are separated, center to center, by r = 93 million miles = 150 million km What is the magnitude of the gravitational force acting on the earth due to the sun?

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Consider the earth following its nearly circular orbit (dashed curve) about the sun.(Figure 2) The earth has mass mearth = 5.98×1024 kg and the sun has mass msun = 1.99×1030kg. They are separated, center to center, by r = 93 million miles = 150 million km

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