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Why doesn’t the moon just drift off into space and form its own orbit around the sun if the sun is the biggest object in our solar system?

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Distance also plays a significant part in gravity, so since the moon is closer to the Earth the gravity is stronger between them.
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Because the mooon is closer to the earth then the sun

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