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Usually the Moon (Earth's) is said to orbit Earth, although the latter is sometimes not regarded as a celestial body per se. There are also arguments based on the nature of the lunar orbit that it is actually co-orbiting the Sun along with the Earth, that Earth and our moon simply share an orbit.

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