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Old September 24th 03, 02:29 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default If the sun went out?


"Alex Stephens Jnr" wrote in
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.. The planet would no longer
be bound in a gravitational orbit and would just travel freely through
space.


semi serious question

If this happened, the planet would just fly off at a Tangent to its original
orbit (we'll ignore gravity from other planets etc for the moment), if this
happened, would we all fall off?

Trev.