That’s the way I understood it at first. But after reading it again after reading the comments above, I can see the other way of viewing it. I do agree with you that how the sentence is currently written it’s confusing.
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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt says it’s so massive they orbit a common point. That directly implies this only happens over a certain mass.
Garric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah pretty much my point. I know you can maybe kinda construe it into the truth if you already know about the topic, like other commenters age saying, but it’s presented as educational, and does a poor job at educating with how misleadingly it is phrased.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.