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On which date shown in the data table was the gravitational attraction between the Moon and Earth the

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On which date shown in the data table was the gravitational attraction between the-example-1

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gravity is stronger, the closer the two objects are to each other - that's why you can "escape the Earth's gravity" if you go far enough from it.

So we have to look for the date with the shortest distance - it's 24th December 2010, when the distance was only 368000 km.
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