Thanks. As I was re-reading the postings, I noted additional information in an earlier post that pretty much answered the question though the term 'barycenter' is new to me.
Joe -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Lux Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Determination of the placement of the first pps 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. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
