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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- also affected by Earth's gravity and so orbits around the two bodies' barycenter, which is well inside the body of the Sun. An object at Earth's distance...
- Pluto and Charon are sometimes considered a binary system because the barycenter of their orbits does not lie within either body, and they are tidally...
- 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...
- where both objects are planets, or planetary-m**** objects, and whose barycenter is external to both planetary bodies. Although up to a third of the star...