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s@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

It seems to fundamentally change what it means “to orbit” something.

As I understood the term, orbiting would be used correctly in these cases:

In contrast, the image above implies the following:

Even the Wikipedia page for barycenter, which OP linked to, opens with the following:

“the barycenter… is the center of massof two or more bodies that orbit one another and is the point about which the bodies orbit.”

Perhaps “orbit” as a verb has two meanings, depending on the specificity of the context.

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