What’s the criteria here? Don’t all bodies go around their common center of mass?
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Right—it’s whether the center of mass is within one of the bodies or between them
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where can i read more about this? curious about what current models are re. a) how solar system was formed & b) what is gravity. thanks!
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"the analogy between the atomic state and the solar system is very deep" also speaks to Jupiter's rolehttps://physics.aps.org/story/v13/st15
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Or becoming one with a diamond core if remember correctly, according to Arthur Clarke's Space Oddyssey III 2061

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