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Animation of
barycenters In astronomy, the
barycenter (or barycentre; from
Ancient Gr**** βαρύς (barús) 'heavy' and κέντρον (kéntron) 'center') is the center...
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periodic orbits are ellipses. The
barycenter of the two
bodies may lie well
within the
bigger body—e.g., the Earth–Moon
barycenter is
about 75% of the way from...
- m**** of a
distribution of m**** in
space (sometimes
referred to as the
barycenter or
balance point) is the
unique point at any
given time
where the weighted...
- The Moon
orbits Earth in the
prograde direction and
completes one
revolution relative to the
Vernal Equinox and the
fixed stars in
about 27.3 days (a tropical...
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other astronomers, it was
realized that the Sun,
while near the
barycenter of the
Solar System, was not
central in the universe.
Modern astronomy...
- spacecraft, or star) is the
speed at
which it
orbits around either the
barycenter (the
combined center of m****) or, if one body is much more m****ive than...
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space debris orbit the system's
barycenter in
elliptical orbits. A
comet in a
parabolic or
hyperbolic orbit about a
barycenter is not
gravitationally bound...
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heliocentric orbit (also
called cir****solar orbit) is an
orbit around the
barycenter of the
Solar System,
which is
usually located within or very near the...
- also
called Laplace's
invariable plane, is the
plane p****ing
through its
barycenter (center of m****)
perpendicular to its
angular momentum vector. In the...
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equations (1) and (2)
results in an
equation describing the
center of m**** (
barycenter) motion. By contrast,
subtracting equation (2) from
equation (1) results...
