Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   I'm not a physicist, but I still think you have got some errors in your
> > thinking.

> Quite possibly. But look at it this way: Say the altitude of the moon over 
> the earth was 1000x what it is now, and the moon was orbiting appropriately 
> slower? What if the outside of the moon's orbit was close to where Venus is? 
> Certainly there would be different dynamics. Hence, in the limit, there's 
> obviously some point where the influence of the sun overwhelms the influence 
> of the earth. I don't know where that point is, mind, or whether it would 
> occur before or after the planets were tidally locked 100%.

  Ah, I found the exact term you are talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere

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                                                          - Warp

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