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What force holds the earth-moon system together?
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What force holds the earth-moon system together?

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The force of gravity, attracting the Earth and the Moon to each other,
keeps the two bodies in orbit around their common center of mass.

(Gravity also keeps the common center of Earth-mass and Moon-mass
in orbit around the sun.)
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gravity holds the system together
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