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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's ORBITS the sun.

Not "revolves around the sun".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

In what context is there a difference? "Orbit" and "revolve around" are synonyms.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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?