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Why isn't the sun orbiting?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

It is. Any pair of objects in space orbit their common centre of mass. It gets considerably more complicated with more bodies, but this is a decent general rule. If we consider the earth-sun sytem in isolation, ignoring any other forces, then the system as a whole orbits its centre of mass, which lies within the sun. If you consider the Jupiter-Sun system, that centre of mass lies on the edge of the sun.

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