If the moon creates the tides, why don’t any other objects get lifted by its gravitational pull?
In: Planetary Science
The moon pulls all objects equally. Just most things are not big enough or fluid enough to see it. The two we can “see” are atmospheric and oceanic tides.
The earth has 326 quintillion gallons of water on its surface. The moon is pulling on it all at the same time, and across all that water it only gets a few feet of movement towards the moon
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