How does the sun hold the planets in orbit?

Question: How does the sun hold the planets in orbit?
- Keywords:
  orbit,
  planet,
  sun
Asked by Deeps 2005 to Chris, Hayley, Jimi on 17 Mar 2016.
- Jimi Wills answered on 17 Mar 2016:
  
  All thing with mass have a gravitational pull… that means they pull other things with mass towards them. The sun has a lot of mass and so its graviational pull has hold the planets in orbit.
- Hayley Moulding answered on 17 Mar 2016:
  
  Everything needs to have a gravitational pull! All that gravity helps us stay where we are!

Question: How does the sun hold the planets in orbit?