Science Illustrated

The Moon orbits a point inside Earth

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The invisible point that two objects are orbiting is the centre of mass. When the one object is much larger than the other, such as Earth and the Moon, the point is located inside the large object, which sways slightly around it. When two objects are about the same size, such as in a binary star system, the point is located approximat­ely in between them.

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