Okay brain, help me put this in words!

Okay, with gravity it's agreed that objects of mass have an attracting force towards one another. That means, a satellite orbiting the earth pulls on the earth as well as the earth pulls on it.

Now if the pull from the satellite isn't enough to overcome the earth's inertia, then it makes sense that it would translate into a movement towards the earth.

Example would be a man pulling on a rope anchored to a brick wall. If you can't pull strong enough to move the wall towards you, it doesn't just cancel out. You will actually pull yourself towards the wall.

So if gravitational pull is dirrectly related to an object's mass, as is an objects inertia, it makes sense that this pull (satellite->main body) would cancel out, and you'd be left with the tenisball bouncing off your left foot at the same time the bowling ball flattens your right foot.

At least, that makes sense to me. Let me look at it from a formula standpoint.

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