Of course, the gravitational field of the rest of observable universe is also present, but that is an extremely UNIFORM EXTERNAL gravitational field over the Solar System that it has NO effect on the INTERNAL motions of the Solar System.
In fact, whenever one describes a particular gravitational field as on or over some particular system of astro-bodies, it is always understood that gravitational field of the rest of observable universe is also present, but that gravitational field is an extremely UNIFORM EXTERNAL gravitational field over the particular system, and so has NO effect on the INTERNAL motions of the particular system.
The center of mass of the Earth would then be the origin of an ideal inertial frame with coordinate axes attached to the unrotating Earth. The inertial frame can also be described as the center-of-mass (CM) inertial frame of the Earth.
In this counterfactual case, every point on the surface of the Earth is NOT accelerated with respect to the ideal inertial frame attached to the Earth's center of mass, and so also defines an ideal LOCAL inertial frame (i.e., an inertial frame at the point and nearby surroundings).
You do NOT need for the point to be the center of mass of any object and usually you would NOT call such Earth surface inertial frames CM inertial frames even if they were actually CM inertial frames.
For an example of a picturesque piece of Earth surface (but NOT an ideal one), see the figure below (local link / general link: alpine_tundra.html).
And it is the variation in the
gravitational field
that causes the tidal force
on the Earth
(see Mechanics files:
tide_earth.html and
The Tidal Force and the Earth).
Note, the tidal force is actually
a combination of an
force
and inertial force
(see Mechanics file:
newtonian_physics.html: Force Categories).
The stretching causes the Earth
tides
(i.e., the water tide)
and also the Earth's
land tide
and
atmospheric tide.
Now the tidal forces
of the Moon
and the Sun
have virtually NO effect on
small-scale
everyday life
and small-scale laboratory
experimentation,
and so can be neglected for most purposes, but NOT all purposes as discussed below.
For more on the
tides,
see Mechanics files:
tide_earth.html
and
frame_basics.html:
The Tidal Force and the Earth.
Therefore, for Earthly purposes,
we use a
rotating frame that
rotates with the Earth
and use
rotating frame
inertial forces
to convert said
rotating frame in an
inertial frame.
We explicate the conversion and the needed
rotating frame
inertial forces in
frame_basics.html: Rotating Frames and the Centrifugal Force and the Coriolis Force.
But the
acceleration of the
surface of the Earth is actually
so low (⪅ 0.03 m/s**2:
see Wikipedia: Gravity of Earth:
Latitude) that
for most small-scale purposes (but NOT all purposes), you can treat
every surface point as defining a LOCAL
inertial frame
(i.e., an inertial frame
at the point and nearby surroundings)
without using
the centrifugal force
and the Coriolis force.
How small is small scale?
Small-scale everyday life
and small-scale laboratory
experimentation.
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Note a bound orbit is
a rotation
relative to the observable universe
of an astro-body
about a center of mass
for the
gravitationally bound system
containing the astro-body.
Such a
gravitationally bound system,
of course, constitutes a
CM inertial frame.
Note that unless one says
rotating frame,
one usually means an
inertial frame
NOT rotating relative to the
observable universe.
In fact, the
UNROTATING FRAME
is SUPER INCONVENIENT for all purposes since
almost all Earthly things (including us) mostly rotate with the
Earth.