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Originally Posted by AC-Phoenix
I''m not sure the moon is needed to keep earth in the suns gravity field though, as Earth was what has kept the moon where it was, not the other way around. Then again physics is math... which I a) am bad in b) will, int he amount needed in high school, never need again in my entire life lol.
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It's more that the orbit of the unusually large (for a satellite) moon stabilizes the tilt of the earth during its orbit, so our climate is considerably more stable than it would be without the moon.