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No. An object must orbit the sun to be considered a planet. No natural object orbits the moon. Since the moon is so close to the far more massive Earth it is unlikely that an orbit around the moon will remain stable for very long.

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No, planets do not orbit the moon. The moon orbits around planets, such as Earth, as a natural satellite. The moon does not have enough mass to exert gravitational influence over a planet for it to orbit around the moon.

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Technically, the earth and its moon both orbit their common center of mass.

But since the earth's mass is about 82 times as much as the moon's mass, their common

center of mass is actually inside the earth. So the earth's motion around this point is only

a 'wobble', whereas the moon's motion is a near-circle with a radius of 238,000 miles.

If you were sitting some distance out in space, above the earth's north pole and watching

the two bodies, you'd swear the moon is simply orbiting the earth.

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