The type of materials on a planet and their weight plus gravity.

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so it means heavier planets orbit closer to sun and gas planets orbit far?

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Mass, Density, and the gravitational effects from other objects and planets. Like remove Jupiter from our solar system and watch the fun.

Jupiter has a huge mass though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_mechanics

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Think of it like one of those gold mining riffle concentrator things. The solar system is kind of like that.

It has to do with orbital mechanics and gravitational interactions between bodies. Look into "orbital resonance".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance Unstable resonance tends to cause either an ejection or a collision. If they all had the same gravitational attraction, they could be at a similar distance.

Planets like to fit in places where the orbits are in tune with each other. Or more precisely: sometimes perfectly out of tune

The mass of a planet, never changes unless you send an object (mass) out of earths orbit, like voyager 1 and voyager 2. If you alter the planets mass, you alter the gravitational pull to the Sun!

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Not necessarily no. The arrangement of the planets in our solar system today came about because of the nature of the protoplanetary disc as the sun was being formed. They have basically been continuing in the same orbits for 4+ billion years. I'm not sure of your question is more about orbital mechanics or the history of formation side of things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplanetary_disk?wprov=sfla1

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So what your saying is all the space trash, ISS, Hubble, etc is mass that has left the plant? And the sun’s gravitational pull is stronger and could be the actual cause of global warming?

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Maybe the other way round? Less mass and we are slightly further away? Colder? Not hotter

The mass of the central body (the Sun) and the velocity of the object in orbit determine the path said object will take.

It would be a good idea to read "Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System" by Ivars Peterson.

Or maybe our days just get shorter by a fraction of a second and that mass loss is made up for in centrifugal forces.

This is not correct on several levels.

The mass of the Earth is constantly changing:

• Atmospheric loss: -100000 tons/year.
• Micrometeoroids: +50000 tons/year.

This net mass loss has no measurable effect on the shape of the Earth's orbit. However, the continuous mass loss of the Sun (5 million tons/sec via fusion and the solar wind) does mean the Earth's orbit grows ever so slightly more distant from year to year.

If you look up Hot Jupiters and Planetary Migration, it’s possible our system is a rarity, in that there are multiple observed cases of gas giants of extremely short orbital periods and proximity to their parent stars, which is suspected to be due to an inward migration. We’re lucky Jupiter hasn’t done the same and swallowed up the terrestrial planets. It’s position also protects us from many potential incoming meteorites.

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>Like remove Jupiter from our solar system and watch the fun.

There must be simulated animation for it somewhere?

Universe Sandbox would probably work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis

This is my favorite theory. Essentially the effects of gravity from the movement of Jupiter and Saturn throughout our early solar system created the unique planetary arrangement we have today.

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Anything in orbit around the earth (all the space trash, ISS, Hubble) is still part of the earth’s mass from an orbital mechanics point of view. The fact that it’s a little further away from center of mass of the earth is an infinitesimally small rounding error when looking at the mass of the earth and the sun.

More accurately, planets with orbits that are not in tune with each other will drift in their orbits until they're in tune or fall into their sun or whatever.

Technically it protects us from meteors. A meteorite is only once it's landed on the Earth.

Your mass has no influence on how much you are being pulled to an object, only your distance from it does. Orbits of planets are determined by distance from the object they orbit and their velocity. At given distance you have to be in given velocity range to stay in orbit.

Perhaps those have just been easier to detect, for obvious reasons.

Thought this was a r/jokes post and was extremely disappointed with the punchline lmao my b

The best visualization of the reasons is the browser game SuperPlanetCrash. Choose a body of a certain mass, plop it down in an orbit of your choosing, and see what happens.

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It's difficult to throw something into the sun, most likely the planet will be ejected from the system. But yes. If there is too much synchronicity (?) the bodies will interact too much and one will slow down and fall in, the other will speed up and get higher