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One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos


EXERCISE 28

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As you also know, the distance from Earth to the Sun is one AU.  Refer to Exercise 
27 to answer this question:  how many times stronger or weaker is the Sun's "tidal 
differential" it exerts on Earth compare to the Moon's?