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Which force helps keep Earth in orbit?

Earth’s gravity
the moon’s inertia
the Sun’s gravity
the Sun’s inertia

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The Sun’s gravity.

The Sun’s gravitational pull provides the centripetal force that keeps Earth moving in its nearly circular orbit; inertia (the tendency to move in a straight line) is not a force.