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Originally Posted by ckissick
If the moon were to go away, the tides would still be with us, but they would be much smaller tides caused by the gravity of the sun.
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Correct, but not sure that the term much smaller is accurate. Due to the large mass of the sun, tidal forces with a sun-earth only system would be of the order 46% of the forces of the sun-moon-earth system.