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You've used the gravitational constant with only three significant digits. So it's no surprise that your answer isn't accurate to five significant digits. Instead of $G$ and $M_\odot$ separately, you should use the product $GM_\odot$, known as the standard gravitational parameter. Its value is known very accurately: in the link, you'll find $$GM_\odot = ... 11 To expand on Prahar's answer, let me run some numbers to try and convince you this is reasonable. Your answer is correct to within one part in 104:$$ \frac{365.256363004}{365.2075}\approx 1.000133795.  The main perturbing influence on Earth's orbit is the gravitational pull of Jupiter, whose mass is about 1000 times smaller than the Sun, and which orbits ...

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Kepler's 3rd law assumes that the Earth travels in a perfect ellipse with the only gravitational force on it being from the Sun. Further, Kepler's laws are derived from Newtonian gravitation. In reality, the orbit of the Earth is affected by the gravitational pull of other planets, and by the effects of General Relativity and is therefore not quite ...

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I think your definition of sphere of influence is not correct. You could also be confusing the sphere of influence with the Hill sphere. The sphere of influence has mainly an application in the patched conic approximation. And the word sphere is even another approximation. A related question asks about the derivation of the radius of this sphere. I also ...

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A Lagrange point is a position relative to a system of two-body gravitational objects at which a third negligible small object, if its velocity is correct too, would not move relative to the two other objects. The two gravitational objects will orbit around the center of mass of both objects together (also called the barycenter). I am not sure, but I also ...

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Consider a lift with its rope snapped. The lift would be falling freely. An observer is inside the lift (tough luck for him!) releasing the ball just at the moment of the free fall. Since the ball and lift would be falling freely the ball would appear to float. Thus, to the observer in the lift, it would seem as if no force is acting upon the ball, using ...

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Black holes pull matter in thus creating a pulling of matter or rotation (gravity) force that matter rotates or spirals around thus creating our shape form and rotational direction of our galaxy. If our sun doesn't die first then yes one day we will be pulled to the center of our galaxy. Every galactic year our solar system speeds up and grows closer to the ...

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To the original poster: You appear to be operating under the "hollywood" misconception that a black hole somehow "sucks harder" than the same amount of mass in a non-black-hole form. However, this false "black holes produce an enormous sucking" misconception is one of the many, many concepts of physics that "hollywood" gets totally wrong; a black hole of a ...

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