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[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's ORBITS the sun.

Not "revolves around the sun".

[–] bilb@lem.monster 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They both orbit a common center of mass called a barycenter. I assume that's what the 26% said.

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 3 points 11 hours ago

Funnily enough, the barycenter of the earth and sun is inside the sun iirc

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 17 hours ago

If you want to make that argument, you have to account for all the other bodies in the solar system... Which I think then becomes a hard problem to predict the movements thereof in the long term?

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