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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The moon is big, but far away from the earth’s atmosphere.
The earth is bigger and much closer to its own atmosphere.
The moon’s gravity can pull the atmosphere a little, just like it pulls the oceans, but it can’t pull things off earth.
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