{"id":861,"date":"2008-09-30T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T08:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=861"},"modified":"2008-09-30T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T08:36:07","slug":"does-the-moon-orbit-the-earth-or-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/861","title":{"rendered":"Does the Moon Orbit the Earth, or the Sun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/09\/29\/the-moon-that-went-up-a-hill-but-came-down-a-planet\/\">The Moon that went up a Hill but came down a planet<\/a> over at Bad Astronomy<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Y]ou have to look at something called the Hill sphere. Basically, it\u2019s the volume of space around an object where the gravity of that object dominates over the gravity of a more massive but distant object around which the first object orbits.<br \/>\nOK, in English \u2014 and more pertinent to this issue \u2014 it\u2019s the volume of space around the Earth where the Earth\u2019s gravity is more important than the Sun\u2019s. If something is orbiting the Earth inside Earth\u2019s Hill\u2019s sphere, it\u2019ll be a satellite of the Earth and not the Sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon that went up a Hill but came down a planet over at Bad Astronomy [Y]ou have to look at something called the Hill sphere. Basically, it\u2019s the volume of space around an object where the gravity of that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[250,331],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","tag-hill-sphere","tag-moon-orbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}