... Who owns the Moon? ... Where do gravity of Earth and Sun balance? ... Do you know at which distance (miles)) and object in space gets attracted or caught by the Earth gravity, and brought down to Earth. ... In particular, the Moon must also be attracted to the Earth--otherwise it would wander off into space. ... To put it more straight forward: IF a shuttle is between the Earth and the sun, at that distance the Earth's gravity acting on it and the sun's gravity acting on it are equal to each other. ...