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Chapter 4Motion, Energy, and Gravity Preface So far we have only used our knowledge on how the celestial bodies are moving in the universe and with respect to each other to explain what we see in our sky. We have not discussed the reasons of why the celestial bodies move the way they do. For example, Why do the planets orbit the Sun in elliptical orbits, What is keeping the planets from running away from the Sun? Or, Why does the Moon revolve around the Earth while the Earth-Moon system revolves around the Sun… Newton’s Laws of Motion and Laws of Gravity explains why the celestial bodi