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Sun-Earth-Moon Gravity

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JustinC
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09-09-2006 10:02 PM

It might be instructional if you calculate the accelerations of the the moon due to the sun's gravitational pull and the earth due to the sun's gravitational pull.
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This is why they are in approximately the same orbit and it reveals an interesting feature of gravitation.
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