The moon's force is what percent of the sun's force?

Answer 1

The force of gravity between two objects is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. The mass of the Sun is approximately 27 million times greater than the mass of the Moon, and the average distance between the Sun and the Earth is about 93 million miles, while the average distance between the Moon and the Earth is about 238,855 miles. By calculating the ratio of the gravitational forces between the Moon and Earth and the Sun and Earth using these values, we find that the Moon's force is about 1/180,000th (0.00056%) of the Sun's force on Earth.

Answer 2

The Moon's gravitational force on Earth is about 17% of the Sun's gravitational force on Earth. This difference is due to the Moon's smaller mass compared to the Sun.

Answer 3

(1.99*10^20)/(3.53*10^22)=0.0056=0.56%