On 1/23/12 5:50 PM, J. L. Trantham wrote:
Is this, in any way, related to the fact the Earth has a Moon?
Ideally, the Earth rotates around the Sun and the Moon rotates around the
Earth. However, is it better described as the 'center of mass' of the
Earth/Moon
barycenter is the term
rotates around the Sun? Not to mention all those other
confounding variables such as other planets and moons?
Well, yes.. there are fairly sophisticated numerical integration
programs that figure all this stuff out, if you're interested.
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