Because the gravity of a larger object pulls the smaller ones toward them.
The moon does pull the earth. All bodies affect others according to their mass and distance
All the time. (The moon is actually orbiting around the Earth, which is orbiting around the sun)
The moon orbits the Earth instead of the Sun because of the gravitational pull between the Earth and the moon. This gravitational force keeps the moon in orbit around the Earth, rather than being pulled towards the Sun.
the moon's gravitional pull on earth decreases with the moon distance from earth
The moon circles around the earth; the earth circles around the sun.
It's stuck in the Earth gravitaional pull.Another answer:Because the Earth has a gravitational pull on the moon. Actually, the Earth and moon revolve around each other common center of gravity. Without the Earth in it's way the moon would just head off in a straight line. Instead, as the moon tries to move away, the Earth does two remarkable things. One, it pulls the moon towards Earth, and two, the Earth moves out of the moon's way.
The moon and the earth both revolve around their common center of mass.
The Earth doesn't orbit the Moon, and the Moon doesn't orbit the Earth; instead, both of them orbit their common center of mass, the "barycenter". The barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is INSIDE the Earth - so the Moon is a satellite of the Earth, not the other way around. If the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system were outside of the Earth, in space between them, then technically they would be "co-planets", not a planet and a moon.
Moon revolves around Earth, Earth revolves around Sun.
You see Earth's revolution around the sun.. the moon revolves around the Earth, not the other way around.
It orbits around Earth because of the mutual gravitational forces between the Earth and the Moon, which attract them to each other.
because the moon has an orbit that goes around the earth which is a path that the moon takes so it will not bump into any other planets