Gravity bending due to another Gravitational Source

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Does the effect of Gravity get bent like light around another gravitational source? If the object is close enough to the Earth does the Earth's gravitational force bent the Moon's or even the Sun's gravitational effect on that object before that "line of sight" event occurs. As Einstein's General Relativity was proven in 1919 with an solar eclipse of the Sun, light bents with a gravitational source why can't gravity.

Will a Satellite around Earth in Low Earth Orbit feel the Gravitational pull before passing from the protection of the Earth's Umbria or will it feel nothing until the Sun is directly in front of it? If so is there any mathematical evaluation of this occurrance?

[JamesF]

In terms of classical physics (ie non quantum physics) then I don't think you can really compare the behaviour of light with that of gravity. Gravity is just the name we give to the distortion of space-time by mass and the question is probably therefore meaningless.

One you get into quantum theory then it may be a more reasonable question to ask because if gravitons are the mediating particles for the distortion of space-time by mass and they are, like photons, massless and travel at light-speed why should they not behave in other similar ways? In a similar vein, one might also ask why, if they do behave in similar ways, photons can't escape a black hole, but gravity can. You may well get different answers depending on whose theory of gravity you chose to believe, but I think the real answer is that we just don't understand gravity well enough to properly explain how it works.

James