How are objects around us affected by the mass of the earth?
The mass of the earth is basically the reason we are sitting at our computer right now, why the moon orbits us, and why when we throw something up, it comes back down. GRAVITY Thanks to its mass, the Earth exerts a force that pulls at us. We humans also have this force, but we cannot pull anything towards us because we are not massive enough, whereas the Sun can hold hundreds of trillions of objects in orbit around it, some of which are over 100,000 AU away,because it is extremely massive, for example.
