Planets DONT orbit around the centre of sun.

[Levina]

BARYCENTER anybody?

I hope ppl here know that it's not the sun that the planets in our solar system revolve around but the combined CG of sun and each planet.
Infact even the sun revolves around this so called BARYCENTER.
Since most of the planets are tiny, combined CG of every planet and sun lies very close to the Center of sun but not in case of Jupiter which is a giant planet. Jupiter is almost twice as large as the total planets combined.
So in case of Jupiter the combined CG of sun and Jupiter is at the surface of the sun and not exactly at the Center.

Be assured that moon too follows this same principle while revolving around Earth. The BARYCENTER in this case lies about 1700 km (approx) below the earth.

Trivia:
Our planet Earth doesn’t even orbit where the barycenter currently is. It orbits where it was approximately 8 mins ago. If the sun suddenly vanished, we would continue to our orbit it for another 8 minutes before shooting off on some random tangent because gravity isn’t instantaneous, it propagates at roughly the speed of light.


@thesolar65 @anant_s @Rain Man

 

[TMA]

BARYCENTER anybody?

I hope ppl here know that it's not the sun that the planets in our solar system revolve around but the combined CG of sun and each planet.
Infact even the sun revolves around this so called BARYCENTER.
Since most of the planets are tiny, combined CG of every planet and sun lies very close to the Center of sun but not in case of Jupiter which is a giant planet. Jupiter is almost twice as large as the total planets combined.
So in case of Jupiter the combined CG of sun and Jupiter is at the surface of the sun and not exactly at the Center.

Be assured that moon too follows this same principle while revolving around Earth. The BARYCENTER in this case lies about 1700 km (approx) below the earth.



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Trivia:
Our planet Earth doesn’t even orbit where the barycenter currently is. It orbits where it was approximately 8 mins ago. If the sun suddenly vanished, we would continue to our orbit it for another 8 minutes before shooting off on some random tangent because gravity isn’t instantaneous, it propagates at roughly the speed of light.


@thesolar65 @anant_s @Rain Man

Riveting! Can you break it down further for a layman?

 

[ebrahym]

BARYCENTER anybody?

I hope ppl here know that it's not the sun that the planets in our solar system revolve around but the combined CG of sun and each planet.
Infact even the sun revolves around this so called BARYCENTER.
Since most of the planets are tiny, combined CG of every planet and sun lies very close to the Center of sun but not in case of Jupiter which is a giant planet. Jupiter is almost twice as large as the total planets combined.
So in case of Jupiter the combined CG of sun and Jupiter is at the surface of the sun and not exactly at the Center.

Be assured that moon too follows this same principle while revolving around Earth. The BARYCENTER in this case lies about 1700 km (approx) below the earth.



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Trivia:
Our planet Earth doesn’t even orbit where the barycenter currently is. It orbits where it was approximately 8 mins ago. If the sun suddenly vanished, we would continue to our orbit it for another 8 minutes before shooting off on some random tangent because gravity isn’t instantaneous, it propagates at roughly the speed of light.


@thesolar65 @anant_s @Rain Man

knew that ............. nice read thnx for sharing

its a weird title you put ............ and it roughly can be stated as ....... all bodies with a mass tends to pull other objects in their orbit but since sun has greater mass as compared any planet ........ the planets are more pulled towards the orbit of sun

 

[Levina]

Riveting! Can you break it down further for a layman?

Umm...i tried to keep it simple.
Let me try again...
Sun is a giant star and has a strong gravity but when it interacts with any planet then a gravity well is formed.
In simple systems the barycenter is permanently located in the space between the two objects but in our solar system most of the planets are tiny when compared to the sun and ergo the BARYCENTER lies somewhere between sun's Center and surface, except Jupiter.

its a weird title you

Why weird?
I thought it was apt.
Doesn't it break the conventional thought process of planets revolving around the sun?
Infact sun and planets orbit each other so do the moon and Earth.

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

Oh.

 

[CriticalThinker02]

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

BARYCENTER anybody?

I hope ppl here know that it's not the sun that the planets in our solar system revolve around but the combined CG of sun and each planet.
Infact even the sun revolves around this so called BARYCENTER.
Since most of the planets are tiny, combined CG of every planet and sun lies very close to the Center of sun but not in case of Jupiter which is a giant planet. Jupiter is almost twice as large as the total planets combined.
So in case of Jupiter the combined CG of sun and Jupiter is at the surface of the sun and not exactly at the Center.

Be assured that moon too follows this same principle while revolving around Earth. The BARYCENTER in this case lies about 1700 km (approx) below the earth.



View attachment 321838



Trivia:
Our planet Earth doesn’t even orbit where the barycenter currently is. It orbits where it was approximately 8 mins ago. If the sun suddenly vanished, we would continue to our orbit it for another 8 minutes before shooting off on some random tangent because gravity isn’t instantaneous, it propagates at roughly the speed of light.


@thesolar65 @anant_s @Rain Man

This should help other to understand...

 

[CriticalThinker02]

This should help other to understand...

I watch him and his two buddies regularly.

 

[MarkusS]

gets even more crazy at PLuto and Charon. Plutos Moon Charon is so big in comparission to Pluto that the combined barycenter is above Plutos Surface. That means Pluto and Charon orbit around each other.

 

[prashantazazel]

BARYCENTER anybody?

I hope ppl here know that it's not the sun that the planets in our solar system revolve around but the combined CG of sun and each planet.
Infact even the sun revolves around this so called BARYCENTER.
Since most of the planets are tiny, combined CG of every planet and sun lies very close to the Center of sun but not in case of Jupiter which is a giant planet. Jupiter is almost twice as large as the total planets combined.
So in case of Jupiter the combined CG of sun and Jupiter is at the surface of the sun and not exactly at the Center.

Be assured that moon too follows this same principle while revolving around Earth. The BARYCENTER in this case lies about 1700 km (approx) below the earth.



View attachment 321838



Trivia:
Our planet Earth doesn’t even orbit where the barycenter currently is. It orbits where it was approximately 8 mins ago. If the sun suddenly vanished, we would continue to our orbit it for another 8 minutes before shooting off on some random tangent because gravity isn’t instantaneous, it propagates at roughly the speed of light.


@thesolar65 @anant_s @Rain Man

Cool info.. I always wondered about the speed of gravity.

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

Why weird?
I thought it was apt.
Doesn't it break the conventional thought process of planets revolving around the sun?
Infact sun and planets orbit each other so do the moon and Earth

If I may add..
The entire solar system revolves around other solar systems in the galaxy and the galaxy revolves other galaxies...

gets even more crazy at PLuto and Charon. Plutos Moon Charon is so big in comparission to Pluto that the combined barycenter is above Plutos Surface. That means Pluto and Charon orbit around each other.

Pluto is a dwarf planet...

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-pluto-k4.html

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

Close but no cookie. As for the barycenter of the solar system, it's within the sun and causes it to wobble slightly, which is unnoticeable because the sun is much more massive than all the planets combined.

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

I watch him and his two buddies regularly.

This is a good documentary on Universe.

 

[Anubis]

Another good example is Pluto and Charon..although some argue they should be considered a binary system.

 

[MarkusS]

Another good example is Pluto and Charon..although some argue they should be considered a binary system.

already said so.

If I may add..
The entire solar system revolves around other solar systems in the galaxy and the galaxy revolves other galaxies...


Pluto is a dwarf planet...

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-pluto-k4.html

What has that to do with my facts?