re: RAOUL WAS WRONG
"The sun's gravitational force on the earth is only 46 percent that of the moon. Making the moon the single most important factor for the creation of tides."
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
Moon's mass: 7.35e22 kg
The sun's Mass: 1.989e+30 kg
http://www.nineplanets.org/
Sun:
"Mass (Earth = 1) 332,830"
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm
The Moon's mass is about 1/80th of Earth
The Sun is about 27,061,224.5 times more massive than the Moon.