If you thought that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun and the Moon around the Earth, you are wrong. Strictly speaking, the Earth and the Sun revolve around a common center of mass, and the other planets and the Earth - the Moon system.
Mass of the Sun is much larger than the mass of any planet. For example, the mass of the Earth is 6 x 1024 kg, and the Sun 2 x 10 30 When you divide the mass of the sun with the mass of the Earth, we get a figure of 330,000, and it is needless to speak about the rotation of the Earth around the Sun.
Center of mass of the Earth - Sun system - is only about 450 kilometers away from the Sun. Even the most massive planet Jupiter, with a mass 318 times that of Earth, the center of mass sisitema Jupiter - Sun is on the surface of the Sun, ie. 750,000 kilometers from the sun center - less than one per mille of the distance of Jupiter from the Sun, which is 7.8 x 10 to the 8th kilometers.
Mass of the Sun is much larger than the mass of any planet. For example, the mass of the Earth is 6 x 1024 kg, and the Sun 2 x 10 30 When you divide the mass of the sun with the mass of the Earth, we get a figure of 330,000, and it is needless to speak about the rotation of the Earth around the Sun.
Center of mass of the Earth - Sun system - is only about 450 kilometers away from the Sun. Even the most massive planet Jupiter, with a mass 318 times that of Earth, the center of mass sisitema Jupiter - Sun is on the surface of the Sun, ie. 750,000 kilometers from the sun center - less than one per mille of the distance of Jupiter from the Sun, which is 7.8 x 10 to the 8th kilometers.
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