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What is the center mass of a solar system?

Answer 1

The centre of mass of a solar system is the solar system barycentre.

The centre of mass of a solar system can vary greatly. In the case of our solar system it moves continuously and can be anywhere between near the centre of the sun and about 100km outside of the sun.

Here is a graph of the position of the solar system barycentre from 1940 to2028. The units are solar radii 696,000km.

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Answer 2

Alexander Acosta

The barycenter, or the point around which all of the system's celestial bodies orbit, is the center of mass of a solar system. In our solar system, this point is typically found close to the Sun's center, but not exactly at its center because of the gravitational pull of other planets.

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