Isaac Ji Kuo on Nostr: Hank G ☑️ Oh noes, you're doing it also! The "common center" isn't the barycenter ...
Hank G ☑️ (npub1agu…j0sk) Oh noes, you're doing it also!
The "common center" isn't the barycenter about which Earth and the Sun orbit "each other".
The Sun's position is more or less unaffected by puny Earth.
It's Jupiter and Saturn that causes the Solar System barycenter to sometimes be outside of the Sun. And Uranus and Neptune have an outsized effect because they're further away (the effect is proportional to distance and mass).
The "common center" isn't the barycenter about which Earth and the Sun orbit "each other".
The Sun's position is more or less unaffected by puny Earth.
It's Jupiter and Saturn that causes the Solar System barycenter to sometimes be outside of the Sun. And Uranus and Neptune have an outsized effect because they're further away (the effect is proportional to distance and mass).