It says it’s so massive they orbit a common point. That directly implies this only happens over a certain mass.
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BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world 1 day agoI mean that’s literally the point the image is trying to make. The last sentence says the point is outside the sun for Jupiter.
I don’t think nitpicking the title achieves anything and it’s not even misleading unless it’s only taken in isolation.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It says it’s so massive they orbit a common point outside the sun. Smaller planets don’t have their common point outside the sun.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I mean, the sentence either implies what I said before, or it implies that the barycenter is a point outside the sun. I really don’t see any other reading than those two.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That’s still not entierly mass dependant, the point is at a distance based on a ratio between the two masses, if Jupiter were closer to the sun then the point would be inside the sun. Its still impressively massive to pull the point outside of the sun at any functional distance but so could a grain of dust with sufficient distance and a big empty universe to prevent anything else from interupting things.