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heliocentric model:

A model with the Sun at the centre and the Earth going round. It was just another theory until dynamical theories came along in the 18th/19th century that showed it is a much better theory than the other ones because the Sun is 300,000 times more massive than the Earth. After that everyone adopted this theory as the true situation.

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