Group: sci.physics.particle
From: Randy Poe
Date: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: making the earth go farther from the sun

On Mar 24, 12:10 pm, "Y.Porat" wrote:
> On Mar 24, 4:31 pm, uri wrote:
>
> > But why is the earth moving away from the sun only an inch a year?
>
> ----------------
> if your above information is right
> may be the sun is loosing something from its
> gravitation power ??

Yes. The thing it's losing, the stuff that causes gravitational
attraction, is called "mass".

> 2
> may be
> collision with some masses on our earths path
> are pushig out ??

No, the sun is losing mass at a rate of billions of
kg per second. Read the rest of the thread.

- Randy

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