Sun have gravitational force and planets also have gravitational so they revolve around the sun in a fixed orbit but asteroids and meteoroids do not have gravitational force then why are they not attracted towards the sun

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Meteoroids are stone like or metallic bodies. they travel in high speed usually after a breaking up of an asteroid.

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