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It does! or more precisely, both revolve around the Moon - Earth barycenter which, because the Moon is only 1/80 as massive as the Earth is under the surface of the Earth (but still almost 5000 km from the Earth's center of gravity) It is this point, the barycenter which orbits the Sun.

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