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wolverine [178]
3 years ago
9

Why do we say that a baseball falls toward Earth, and not Earth toward the baseball?

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1 answer:
mezya [45]3 years ago
4 0
Probably because the earth is stationary rotating on its axis whereas the baseball is the one doing all of the movement after being thrown
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