• Question: Hi,is Earth the only planet with gravity,?. How do you know this ?.

    Asked by diggerlack to Joe on 12 Mar 2014.
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      Joe Sweeney answered on 12 Mar 2014:


      Gravity is caused by mass: the bigger/heavier an object is, the more powerful its gravitational field. This was first shown by Newton and then Einstein refined the explanation to deal with a few things not which couldn’t be explained. So gravity is not to do with planets, it’s to do with mass. Even the moon has a gravitational field, it’s just weak!

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