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[โ€“] bilb@lem.monster 20 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They both orbit a common center of mass called a barycenter. I assume that's what the 26% said.

[โ€“] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

If you want to make that argument, you have to account for all the other bodies in the solar system... Which I think then becomes a hard problem to predict the movements thereof in the long term?