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Is the sun's gravitational pull on the moon greater or less than the earth's pull on...

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Is the sun's gravitational pull on the moon greater or less thanthe earth's pull on the moon? The sun doesn't steal our moon away,so the earth must be pulling harder, right? If you do thecalculation, you find out that's not true. The sun pulls more thanthe earth, so why don't we lose the moon?

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If you use the masses of the sun earth and the moon and anddistances between them to calculate the attraction betweenthemyou will getGravitational attraction between earth and the moon 1991020    See Answer
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