How come the moon doesn’t pull away earth’s atmosphere

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If the moon is able to cause rising tides with its gravity, how come it cannot do the same with the atmosphere? Wouldn’t this cause the atmosphere to leak significantly?

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Because the Earth is more massive.

To flip your question around, if the moon could pull away some air, why wouldn’t the more massive Earth pull it right back?

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