Asked by farnoosh

the gravity that sun has on the moon is about 2 times more than the gravity from earth so why doesn't moon run away from earth to sun?

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Answered by Damon
The entire earth moon system is revolving around the sun once a year. Thus the moon is in equilibrium orbit about the sun with the gravity and centripetal acceleration due to motion about the sun exactly as the earth is.
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