Thursday 16 July 2020
If somebody asks you where the center of the solar system is, you would probably say “the sun.” The orrery shows it all. Everything orbits around the sun (which we knew a lot earlier than most think. Geocentric beliefs were kind of always pseudo science). Except that it’s not that simple. What is a barycenter? A barycenter is the point in any system around which the objects in the system orbit. So, the barycenter for the Earth and the Moon is… …you guessed it. Not exactly the Earth. Now, because the Earth is considerably larger, the barycenter is inside the…
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