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Old 23-February-2007, 11:40 AM
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Exactly what Gillianren said. Here's a good page (by the BA himself) nicely explaining & illustrating the relative effects of gravity & tidal forces of the solar system bodies on the Earth:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planets.html

As you can see, Jupiter contributes only one hundredth of the gravity (maximum) than of our own moon, which itself only has a force on us of 3 millionths of Earth's!

Oh, forgetting my manners; welcome to the board AquarianEssence, I hope you stick around & learn many things about Astronomy here, I have

(Incidentally, that particular page has personal significance for me since it was by finding this, while attempting to allay a friends fears about May 2000, that I first discovered Bad Astronomy! was that really over 7 years ago?!).
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