• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    No, it is not true in general that the barycenter lies outside both objects.

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      2 hours ago

      I mean, sure, but you can reasonably glean that I’m just talking about the fact that any 2 objects with mass exert gravity on each other. The OP is facebook-tier

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        1 hour ago

        I can’t reasonably glean that, because the OP clearly says this:

        It is so massive that both Jupiter & Sun orbit around a common point that lies outside the Sun known as the “barycenter”.

        I agree that OP is facebook-tier but your reply is reddit-tier :P