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The Moon does not just go around the Earth. In reality, the two objects orbit about a common gravitational midpoint, called a barycenter. The mass of each object and the distance between them dictates that this barycenter is inside Earth, about three-fourths of the way out from the center.

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The point between the Earth and Moon where the gravitational pulls of the Earth and Moon exactly cancel each other is located at a point about 90% of the way from the center of the Earth to the center of the Moon. The gravitational center of the Earth/Moon system is called the barycenter and it is located about a thousand miles (1707 Km) inside the earth towards the Moon (it moves as the Moon moves along its orbit).

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Gravitation follows an inverse square law, so a gravitational field while eventually small enough to be negligible will never be non-existent.

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