Multiple Choice
The reason the moon does not crash into the Earth is that the
A) moon has less mass than the Earth.
B) Earth's gravitational field is weak at the moon.
C) gravitational pull of other planets keeps the moon up.
D) moon has a sufficient tangential speed.
E) none of these
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