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How does the moon affect the tides with gravitational pull from 250,000mls away?
 
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this is a highly weighted question.


subjected to high levels of gravity,

relativally speaking :rolleyes:
 
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Think you might find that that's kilometres, Blond ;)

On average, the distance between the Moon and the Earth is 384,403 kilometers. This distance fluctuates between 363,104 kilometers and 405,696 kilometers due to the eccentricity of the Moon's orbit.

Wiki told me :p
 
When I were a lad, we were taught at school that it was around 93 million miles.

And Wiki answers says:
The Sun is approx 149,600,000 kilometers from the Earth.
Between 146 million km (91 million miles) and 152 million km
(94.5 million miles) depending on Earth's position in orbit.

Edited to add: clicky - not wiki
 
the way is was taught it on my sailing courss was to think of the earth as a circle and the water as an egg shape around it. The point of the egg is pulled towards the moon causing the tides.
 
This is the way i see it

earths gravitational pull moons g.p
<...............................................................><.............>
earth...........................................................................moon
1G ^ 0.14G
250,000miles
So where the arrow is the gravitational pull would cancel each other out
 
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