... Asymmetry of the Moon's orbit. ... Who owns the Moon? ... If gravity could be simply defined as a force that attracts matter, and the sun's gravitational pull is sufficient to hold the Earth in orbit, what keeps it from pulling me off the Earth? ... 2) Being on the orbiting Earth, your body already responds to the Sun's gravity, by sharing the Earth's velocity of 30 km/s around the Sun. ... This is because the solar wind follows a curved path between the sun and the earth not a straight-line path." ...