Why is a gravitational force between you and your friend too weak to be experienced, but that between earth and sun is extremely large, through they are separated by large distance?


From Newton’s law of gravitation, the gravitational force between two bodies is directly proportional to the product of their masses.

As the masses of earth and sun are very large as compared to the mass of me and my friend, the gravitational force between them is much greater than between me and my friend.

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