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What would happen to the Earth without the gravitational pull of the Sun?

If the force of gravity between the sun and the planets suddenly disappeared, what type of path would the Earth follow?

Public Comments

1. we fly off away fro heat and die
2. Straight until it got caught up into another object's gravitational pull.
3. The earth would make a bee-line for intertellar space. The temperature would eventually plummet to -459 degrees and we'd all freeze to death if we didn't starve first.
4. It would head off into the wild black yonder and we would all die.
5. well it will just float until it found something to orbit around. I think that it would be Jupiter that we would orbit. but it will be to cold for life with out the sun so that does not matter that much.
6. we would continue to go straight and until the end of the universe and eventually die cuz we have no heat
7. We will continue to orbit the galaxy without the additional motion of sun orbit.
8. there wouldn't be an earth. The gravitational pull is what holds our planet together and put it together in the first place.
9. It would be flung into an orbit similar to that of a comet and begin a lonely wandering through the Galaxy until it either was pulled into another object or into the Gavitational pull of another sun and/or planet.
   
   Regardless of what it did, All life would be dead real quick.
10. I think that you know already what is going to happen. Could you just not turn off the gravity for a another little while? I have brownies in the oven.
11. Newtons law. Object moves with the same speed and same direction as long as no force is affecting it !! so earth keeps travelling straight
    
    
    
    Infact nothing happens to earth !!!!