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Every other mass in the universe exerts a gravitational force on the Earth. Of all those other masses, there are two which are big enough or close enough to have a substantial influence. These are the Sun (big but distant) and the Moon (close, but small). Nothing else in the universe has more an a trace effect on the Earth, not even mighty Jupiter, which is both smaller than the Sun AND several times more distant.

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