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The moon doesn't fly out of its orbit around the earth for the same reason that the earth

doesn't fly out of its orbit around the sun, and our TV and GPS satellites don't fly out of

their orbits around the earth.

The mutual gravitational force between every two masses binds these small bodies to the

larger bodies around which they fall in closed paths.

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