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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 272766" data-attributes="member: 176256">With regards to the damping effect of the oceans if you imagine that, relatively speaking, the paint on a cricket ball is many times thicker then perhaps you can see why is has such a small effect.It's not only the oceans which have a damping effect, the atmosphere gets pulled around as well but this is even weaker in its effect.The Earth and Moon orbit around each other (everything is relative!) but, because the Earth is much more massive, the wobble is is not as noticeable on the Earth.</blockquote>