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minus-squareDroggelbecher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 hours agoIt says it’s so massive they orbit a common point. That directly implies this only happens over a certain mass.
minus-squareCannonFodder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 hours agoIt says it’s so massive they orbit a common point outside the sun. Smaller planets don’t have their common point outside the sun.
minus-squareDroggelbecher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoI mean, the sentence either implies what I said before, or it implies that the barycenter is a point outside the sun. I really don’t see any other reading than those two.
It says it’s so massive they orbit a common point. That directly implies this only happens over a certain mass.
It says it’s so massive they orbit a common point outside the sun. Smaller planets don’t have their common point outside the sun.
I mean, the sentence either implies what I said before, or it implies that the barycenter is a point outside the sun. I really don’t see any other reading than those two.