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Does the pull of the sun affect our tides at all? I was under the impression that it was lunar gravity that did this.
by colordrops 3y ago
Does the pull of the sun affect our tides at all? I was under the impression that it was lunar gravity that did this.
- rcxdude 3y agoThe moon has a much larger effect but the effect of the sun is also significant: the variation in the strength of the tides over the course of a month is due to the effects of the sun and moon coming in and out of phase. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/springtide.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/springtide.html