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How did Newton explain why the moon did not fall to earth?

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Newton was the once who figured out that orbits were driven by nothing more than gravity. He showed how in an orbit gravity is balanced by centrifugal force, so planets orbit the sun or the moon orbits the earth without falling. The moons momentum keeps it in a particular path rather than to fall straight down