Question

What is gravitational pull? How does it affect planets and why?

Answer 1

Gravitational pull of earth is the attraction that the earth exerts on object or object exerts on earth.It affects planets as it helps that to stay in their orbits and rotate around the sun....
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Answer 2

Gravity or Gravitational pull is the natural phenomenon by which all things with Mass are brought toward another, including objects from atoms and photons, to planets and stars.
Every object in space exerts a Gravitational pull on every other, and so gravity influences the paths taken by everything traveling that space
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