Does The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
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According to Newton's law of gravitation, the sun should "pull" way harder on the moon than the Earth does. So does the moon actually orbit the Earth? Why?
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Hill Spheres and lunar orbit: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/29/the-moon-that-went-up-a-hill-but-came-down-a-planet/#.VULLHq1Viko
True shape of moon's orbit: http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/convex.html
Newton's law of gravitation vs. Hill Sphere: https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=18501
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere
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