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minus-squareBilb!@lem.monsterlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·20 days agoThey both orbit a common center of mass called a barycenter. I assume that’s what the 26% said.
minus-squareKubeRootlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 days agoIf you want to make that argument, you have to account for all the other bodies in the solar system… Which I think then becomes a hard problem to predict the movements thereof in the long term?
minus-squareHexarei@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 days agoFunnily enough, the barycenter of the earth and sun is inside the sun iirc
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They both orbit a common center of mass called a barycenter. I assume that’s what the 26% said.
If you want to make that argument, you have to account for all the other bodies in the solar system… Which I think then becomes a hard problem to predict the movements thereof in the long term?
Funnily enough, the barycenter of the earth and sun is inside the sun iirc