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   From: Z@erkonx.net   
      
   On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:13:04 -0700, Aardvark wrote:   
      
   > As it does so   
   > the pull of the Sun's gravity   
   > gradually increases on the ping-pong ball.   
      
   I believe this to be incorrect and then leads to your problem.   
      
   Here is what I understand:   
      
   Gravity is not that of the sun alone. A gravitational center does not   
   equate with the center of the sun or any mass. The ball travels to one   
   gravitational center which is influenced by all object mass (motion).   
      
   Recent discoveries of other planets were based on this, as I understand   
   it. Observed suns wobbled in relation to (large) planets orbiting in it's   
   system. I believe as logically true that if more accurate observations   
   could be made, all other planets in the same system could be detected in   
   the same way.   
      
   This counters the idea of gravitational equilibrium as a rest state. Or   
   'rest' only reflecting limits of observation.  Gravitational forces and   
   their centers change perpetually as mass changes perpetually.   
      
   But then this is not really "great thinking".   
      
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